Alfred Johann Levy

Alfred Johann Levy (born July 13, 1901 in Hamburg ; † May 13, 1987 there ) was a German politician of the FDP .

Life and work

Levy, who was of Evangelical Lutheran faith , completed an apprenticeship as a radio mechanic after secondary school and then continued his education in electronics. In 1924 he acquired both the title of electrical engineer and the master's title of radio mechanic and opened a specialist electrical shop in Barmbek-Nord , which still exists today under his name as an electrical workshop. In the 1920s was a successful long distance runner.

Although Levy was harassed by the National Socialists as a "quarter Jew" because of his Jewish ancestors , he was committed to helping persecuted fellow citizens. Together with the young Barmbeck pastor Gustav Wendt , who had been hired by the Evangelical Lutheran Church especially for this purpose (he had to call himself “cemetery pastor ” to camouflage himself), he looked after the baptized Jews and tried to protect them from persecution protect.

Levy also belonged to Group Q , a group of former members of the DDP, which disguised itself as a cabaret group and met in the Bronzekeller pub in the Neustadt , on the one hand to maintain contact with each other and to other illegal groups (Freemasons, Social Democrats, Communists), on the other hand To enable oppressed sympathizers to change location through contacts with liberals in other cities and thus to withdraw the access of the local Gestapo. After the pub was closed by the Gestapo in 1943, Levy continued to be involved in the Freie Hamburg group , the resistance group led by Friedrich Ablass and which emerged from Group Q. Levy was a freemason .

Political party

Levy joined the DDP in 1919 , where he belonged to the left wing of the party. In 1927 he became district chairman in Barmbek. In the summer of 1930 he resigned from the DDP because of preparations for the establishment of the German State Party .

In 1945 he took part in the founding of the “Free Democrats Party”, which emerged from the Bund Free Hamburg and later became the Hamburg regional association of the FDP . He was immediately elected chairman of the District Association Barmbek / Dulsberg and held this post until 1975. He was 1949, a staunch opponent of the electoral alliance with the Conservatives in VBH and announced at the state party on 31 October 1949 because of his longtime political ally Willy Max Rademacher the Friendship on. From the end of 1949 Levy participated within the Hamburg FDP in the Democratic Circle , in which the left wing of the state party came together.

With a total of 32 years as district chairman of the DDP and FDP in Barmbek, he is still the liberal politician in Hamburg with the longest term as district chairman. For his services, the state party conference of the Hamburg FDP elected him an honorary member on January 12, 1980.

MP

Levy was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly from 1949 to 1954 . From 1953 to 1966 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament . There he was primarily committed to eliminating the housing shortage and further developing state planning. In 1960 he spoke out against the construction of City Nord because the area should continue to be intended for residential use. In the 1966 general election, too , he was ranked twelfth on the FDP state list. Since the FDP only received eight seats instead of twelve, he left the citizenry. From 1947 to 1974 Levy was also a deputy of the Hamburg building authorities.

Honors

In 1972 Levy was awarded the “ Medal for Loyal Work in the Service of the People ” by the Hamburg Senate . He was also the bearer of the honorary title "Honorary Master of Hamburg Crafts", which the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts awards and which is only reassigned after the death of the previous sponsor, so that there is always only one "Honorary Master". On June 23, 2010, the newly created Alfred-Johann-Levy-Strasse in Barmbek-Nord was named after Levy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} “Humanly seen” , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 14, 1972, accessed on September 6, 2018.
2. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, page 116.
3. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, page 427.
4. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, page 440.
5. ^ "It's about the City Nord" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from February 20, 1960, accessed on September 6, 2018.
6. ^ "On March 27th will be elected: The parties and their candidates" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 10th, 1966, accessed on September 6th, 2018.
7. ↑ Official Gazette of July 2, 2010, page 1121 (PDF; 172 kB), accessed on January 18, 2011.