Alois Puschmann

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Alois Puschmann

Alois Puschmann (born May 17, 1882 in Liebau , Landeshut district ; † June 28, 1937 in Sagan , Lower Silesia , according to other information in 1939 ) was a German politician ( center ).

Live and act

Alois Puschmann was born the son of a newspaper deliverer. After attending elementary school from 1888 to 1896, he earned his living for thirteen years as a worker in a flax yarn spinning mill. He then worked for eight years as a workers' secretary and six months as editor of a daily newspaper.

On January 1, 1916, Puschmann was appointed city councilor for the city of Glatz . On August 1, 1918, he was appointed head of the Office for Public Proof of Work in the same city , a function which he was to exercise until March 27, 1928 and in which he was promoted to the rank of senior government councilor. He then took over the management of the State Labor Office for the Province of Upper Silesia in Gleiwitz . Later he was also appointed Vice President of the Government for Upper Silesia. Puschmann held his position as head of the state labor office until March 31, 1934, when he was a supporter of political Catholicism as a supporter of political Catholicism, as a result of the successive "cleansing" of the state administration initiated by the National Socialists after they came to power in the spring of 1933 Denunciation by a subordinate - removed from his post. Instead, he was given a subordinate position in the Sagan Labor Office .

In addition to his full-time work in the service of the Office for Public Proof of Work and in the State Labor Office, Puschmann was an expert on various commissions and committees for administration and welfare purposes, for example during the First World War as chairman of the War Committee for Consumption Interests.

After the First World War at the latest , Puschmann began to become politically active in the Catholic Center Party . In January 1919 he was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, to which he belonged until June 1920 as a representative of constituency 9 (Breslau). After that, Puschmann sat for eight months until February 23, 1921, in the first regular Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , in which he represented constituency 8 (Breslau). After he resigned his mandate, it was taken over by Karl-Anton Schulte .

marriage and family

Puschmann was married twice and had two children. His first wife died of tuberculosis in 1929. His son was forcibly recruited in the Second World War in 1943.

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : Reichstag member of the German Center Party 1871-1933: biographical manual and historical photographs , 1999, p. 344.
  • Martin Schumacher / Katharina Lübbe / Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism: Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933-1945: A biographical documentation: With a research report on the persecution of German and foreign parliamentarians under National Socialist rule , 1994, p. 373.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from Puschmann's relatives to Wikipedia
  2. ^ Entries in Hauenfelder: Reichstag deputies and Schumacher: MdR