Alfred Dohm

Alfred Dohm (born May 11, 1922 in Schiffweiler ; † June 30, 1982 in Homburg ) was a Saarland politician ( SPS / CDU ) and journalist.

Life

After primary school , Dohm attended a humanistic grammar school in St. Wendel . He left school after high school to register as a volunteer for military service . He completed his basic training in the Aviation Training Regiment 43, then in 1942 he was deployed on land with the 18 Jägerregiment off Leningrad . This was followed by pilot training and promotion to lieutenant (1943). He was involved in the fighting in Berlin and ended up in American captivity , from which he was released at the end of 1945.

In the following months, Dohm worked briefly as an unskilled worker in railway construction until he took part in a journalism course and was employed as an editor at the Saarbrücker Zeitung .

politics

In August 1947 Dohm joined the Saarland Social Democratic Party (SPS). Two years later he was elected mayor of his hometown Schiffweiler; he held the office until 1956.

He is a member of the Saarland Landtag in its second legislative period (1952–1955). A direct re-election failed due to the strong losses of the SPS, but he was able to move up in 1956 for Hermann Petri . After his party had previously dissolved itself and, unlike most of his party comrades, he had not joined the SPD , he initially sat as a non-party and non-attached member of the state parliament. On January 9, 1957, he moved to the CDU parliamentary group. Most recently he was a member of the committees for economy and transport, for questions of reunification and borderland questions, for matters of internal administration and local politics, for budget and financial questions as well as for constitutional questions. In 1961 he left the state parliament.

literature

• Landtag des Saarlandes (ed.): Manual. State Parliament of the Saarland. Saarbrücken 1957. p. 323.