Anton Calujek

Anton Calujek (born October 23, 1889 in Smolitz , Gostyn district , Posen province ; † January 15, 1962 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending the elementary school in Gelsenkirchen, Calujek completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter, then worked in this profession and in 1912 joined the Prussian State Railways, later the German State Railroad ( Reichsbahndirektion Mainz ). He was a participant in the First World War . In addition, he was involved in trade unions and since 1924 was district manager of the Unified Union of Railway Workers in Germany (EdED), the largest railway workers' union of the Weimar Republic, in Mainz . At the same time, Calujek was second chairman of the General German Civil Service Association (ADB) in the People's State of Hesse until 1933 .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he had to give up his union office. He was subsequently unemployed, was arrested several times and was interned in Osthofen concentration camp in 1933/34 . In 1940 he was briefly taken into " protective custody ". Calujekt was active in the resistance against the Nazi state. Among other things, he was a close confidante of Wilhelm Leuschner and Emil Henk . In connection with the Gewitter campaign , Calujek was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was imprisoned from August 29 to November 11, 1944. In the meantime he had worked as a sales representative from 1935 to 1939, as an insurance agent in the Bingen district from 1940 to 1942 and as an industrial clerk in Essen from 1942 to 1944 . He was a soldier from 1944 to 1945.

Calujek was a British prisoner of war until September 1945. He then worked as a secretary in a leading position at regional level at the Union of Railway Workers in Germany (GdED). In the years from 1945 to 1947 he held the position of chairman of the "Unified Union of Railway Workers" in the Mainz district. From August 1947 to September 1949 he served as a ministerial director in the Ministry of Economics and Transport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1949 to 1954 he was Vice President of the Southwest German Railway and Railway Directorate Mainz, which now belongs to the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

politics

Calujek became a member of the SPD in 1909. From 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the DAF . As part of the denazification , he received on July 13, 1949 not affected by the investigation committee Mainz. In 1946 he became a member of the Mainz city council and the Bingen district council. In 1946/47 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and then until 1951 a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Parliament . In the state parliament he was a member of the Refugee Committee / Aid Committee for Immigrants, Main Committee, Legal Committee / Legal, Rules of Procedure and Petitions Committee, and Economic and Transport Committee.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 114.
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 242 ff., 334, 417, 427-428 (short biography).