Arthur Bretschneider

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Arthur Bretschneider (born February 22, 1886 in Zadel near Meißen ; † February 27, 1949 in Dresden ) was a German liberal politician ( FVP / DDP / DStP / LDPD ). From 1947 to 1949 he was LDPD state chairman in Saxony .

Life

Bretschneider attended the community school in Meißen from 1892 to 1900 and then completed teacher training at the teachers' college in Plauen from 1900 to 1906 , where he passed the exam. Between 1906 and 1909 he was initially an assistant teacher in Niederwürschnitz and then until 1934 a teacher in Chemnitz . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was dismissed as headmaster in 1933 and was forcibly transferred to Leipzig in 1934 as a teacher .

In 1910 Bretschneider joined the Progressive People's Party. In November 1918 he was a member of the workers' and soldiers' council in Chemnitz and a representative in the state workers' council of Saxony. In 1919 he was one of the founders of the DDP in Chemnitz. From 1926 he worked as DDP district chairman in the Reichstag constituency of Chemnitz-Zwickau-Plauen. From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the DDP and DStP in the Saxon state parliament and was its second, later first vice-president. On May 23, 1933, he spoke out in the state parliament for the adoption of the Enabling Act . He later resigned from his mandate.

From May to September 1945 he worked in the district education office in Oschatz . In 1945 he was one of the co-founders of the LDPD in Dresden and was a member of the state executive. From 1946 he worked as deputy state chairman. At the Schandau state party conference of the LDPD in October 1947, he was elected regional chairman of the LDPD. From July 1947 he was a member of the central board of the LDPD.

From September 1945 he was a ministerial advisor in the state administration of Saxony and was a consultant for secondary schools and state institutions, later for elementary school matters in the Interior and National Education department. From December 1946 to June 1947 he worked in the school system of the Saxon Ministry for National Education. In the state government of Saxony from July 1947 he headed the main transport department of the Ministry of Economics and Economic Planning as a ministerial director.

In autumn 1946 he was re-elected as a member of the Saxon state parliament and served as a member of the state parliament presidium. Secretary He was secretary until June 30, 1948, and vice-president of the state parliament from June 30, 1948 until his death. In 1948/49 he was also a member of the German People's Council .

Bretschneider had an accident while driving to the LDPD party congress in Eisenach and died in hospital. He is buried in the south cemetery in Leipzig .

Honors

After his death, the Eutritzscher Park in Leipzig was named Arthur-Bretschneider-Park , in Chemnitz-Schloßchemnitz a street is named after him.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer: Bretschneider, Artur. In: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, Volume 1, p. 349 ( digitized version )
  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 878.
  • Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL The end of parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic during the time of National Socialism: Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 18.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 85.
  • Andreas Thüsing (Ed.): The Presidium of the State Administration of Saxony. The minutes of the meetings from July 9, 1945 to December 10, 1946 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 505.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mike Schmeitzner : Dresden: Landtag and State Chancellery . In: Konstantin Hermann (Ed.): Führerschule, Thingplatz, "Judenhaus" - places and buildings of the National Socialist dictatorship in Saxony . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-052-9 , pp. 58–61, here especially note 7 on p. 61. (For unknown reasons, the author does not name Bretschneider by name, but describes him as a left-liberal MP. )
  2. ^ Negotiations of the Saxon State Parliament, 6th electoral period (1933), pp. 12 and 15.
personal data
SURNAME Bretschneider, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German liberal politician (FVP, DDP, DStP, LDPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Zadel
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1949
Place of death Dresden