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Arthur (Georg) Arzt (born October 9, 1880 in Reichenbach ; † May 22, 1953 in Wiesbaden ) was a German politician of the Weimar Republic and a member of the Reichstag ( SPD ). He was a member of the Reichstag from 1928 (4th electoral term) to 1933 (8th electoral term).

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He attended the seminar in Auerbach i. V. and then became a teacher in Brunndöbra , Ebmath i. V. and Dresden . During the First World War he was a non-commissioned officer . Between 1919 and 1923 he was a district school inspector and from 1923 to 1927 a district school councilor in Dresden. After that he was on hold for his mandates.

The involvement in the teaching movement was related to his profession. He was chairman of the Dresden teachers' association , board member of the Saxon teachers' association and member of the German teachers' association .

Before the First World War, Doktor was politically part of left-wing liberalism . He was a member of the Liberal Association until 1910 . During the November Revolution he was chairman of a soldiers' council for an army corps in the east. In December 1918, Arzt was a delegate at the first council congress . He also joined the SPD in 1918.

Doctor became a member of the Saxon state parliament as early as 1919 . Between 1923 and 1928 he was head of the state committee of the SPD Saxony (state chairman) and represented the left wing there. He was also district chairman of the party for East Saxony from 1920 to 1928. He was also a member of the large SPD civil servants' committee in Saxony and the state working committee.

Because of his election to the Reichstag , he resigned his state parliament mandate on June 11, 1928. Doctor was a member of the Reichstag until 1933.

After the start of National Socialist rule , he emigrated . In 1933 he was in Czechoslovakia , where he was border secretary for the Sopade in the Sudetenland . During this time he was also a member of the Association of German Teacher Emigrants . Together with Fritz Max Cahén and Hans Jaeger , he was involved in the founding of the German People's Socialist Movement (DVB) in February 1936 .

“Even the political spectrum of the founders vividly shows the objective of this party: to 'blow up the dividing walls between right and left' in favor of a 'third front'. By reviving national traditions, the labor movement was to be armed against future nationalist temptations of fascism in order to prevent a renewed incursion of National Socialism into the working class. As the left counterpart of the Black Front led by Otto Strasser , the task of the People's Socialists was seen in preparing the synthesis of non-Marxist socialism and the national revolutionary movement on the socialist side of the political party landscape. [..] It is no coincidence that there were initially close contacts with Strasser's Black Front, with whom the People's Socialists adopted a joint manifesto of the 'German Front against Hitlerism' on January 10, 1937. "

The cooperation between DVB and the Black Front broke up in 1937, and Arzt, who had been expatriated in July 1936 , went to England in March 1939 , where he joined a group led by Karl Höltermann . After the outbreak of World War II, he was interned as a German on the Isle of Man until the end of 1940 .

Doctor returned to Germany in October 1946. He initially worked in Westphalia . From 1947 he was a government councilor, later a senior government councilor in Hesse and also worked as a freelance writer.

Works

  • What shortcomings does current religious education show and how can they be countered? Bleyl & Kaemmerer, Dresden 1908.
  • together with Kurt Weckel : The work school is a necessity of our time. Reflections on the development and nature of the work school. Leipzig 1911.
  • Sport and politics. A necessary clarification for sports enthusiasts and politicians only. Leipzig 1927.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Mike Schmeitzner and Michael Rudloff: History of Social Democracy in the Saxon State Parliament - Presentation and Documentation 1877–1997. 2nd edition 1998, ISBN 3-00-002084-5 , pages 170-172.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hildegard Feidel-Mertz / Hermann Schnorbach: teachers in emigration. The Association of German Teacher Emigrants (1933-39) in the traditional context of the democratic teachers' movement, Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, ISBN 3-407-54114-7 , p. 227
  2. ↑ a b Boris Schilmar: The European discourse in German exile 1933-1945 , R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 2004, ISBN 3-486-56829-9 , pp. 84–85
personal data
SURNAME Doctor, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doctor, Arthur Georg (full name); Lowerz, Arthur (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1953
Place of death Wiesbaden