Anton Lorenz (politician)

Anton Lorenz (born August 29, 1888 in Jerxheim , † February 26, 1960 in Wismar ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was an engineer and from 1948 to 1952 a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament and later a member of the Rostock district assembly .

Life

Anton Lorenz attended until 1902, the elementary school and was until 1905 the locksmith train. After several years as a journeyman , he trained as an electrical engineer at the technical college for machine technology in Braunschweig from 1911 and at the Mittweida technical center from 1912 . He took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1919 to 1925, Lorenz was works manager in Wismar before he started his own business there in 1926 as a master electrician. Lorenz was politically organized in the center before 1933 and belonged to the Christian metalworkers' association.

In August 1945 Anton Lorenz joined the CDU and together with Willy Ruthenberg founded the Wismar local group. Lorenz took over the local and later also the district chairmanship from Ruthenberg, in 1948 he replaced Werner Jöhren in the Mecklenburg state parliament, to which he also belonged in the second electoral term. After the state assembly was dissolved in 1952, Lorenz became a member of the Rostock district assembly.

literature

• LHAS 6.11-1-298, Mecklenburg Landtag 1946–1952, questionnaires, résumés and assessments of members of the Landtag 1950
• Christian Schwießelmann: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the foundation to the dissolution of the regional association. A representation of party history . Droste, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-7700-1909-0 , ( research and sources on contemporary history 58).

Web links

• Literature about Anton Lorenz in the state bibliography MV