Arthur Lieutenant

Arthur Lieutenant (born September 9, 1884 in Jauer , † October 10, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German politician ( DDP , LDPD ).

Life

Lieutenant completed a degree in economics and then worked as a lawyer . After the end of the First World War , at the end of 1918 he was one of the founders of the Voluntary People's Party in Glogau , a local group of the German People's Party (DVP), but soon joined the German Democratic Party (DDP). Since 1919 he was a paid city councilor in Glogau, in 1931 he was elected Glogau mayor. After the National Socialists came to power , he was removed from office and imprisoned for twelve weeks.

After the end of the Second World War , Lieutenant was one of the founding members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in July 1945 and from then on acted as an executive board member of the party. In February 1946 he was elected deputy party chairman at the first LDPD delegates conference. At the same time, between March 1947 and January 1948 he was one of the two managing directors of the short-lived cross-zonal Democratic Party of Germany (DPD) alongside Ernst Mayer . After the death of the previous LDPD chairman Wilhelm Külz , he took over provisional management of the party business in April 1948 and was also considered the most promising candidate for the now pending election of the party chairman. However, his resolute rejection of communism had put him out of favor with the Soviet occupation authorities and the SED , which was gradually becoming a hegemonic party , which finally led him to step down as LDPD executive chairman in October 1948.

In May 1948 Lieutenant was appointed as the successor to his party friend Walter Kunze as Finance Minister of the State of Brandenburg in the Steinhoff II cabinet . He was also a member of the German People's Council between March 1948 and October 1949 . With the founding of the GDR , he resigned as state minister and resigned his mandate in the Provisional People's Chamber . After staying in West Berlin for a long time due to illness , he did not return to the GDR in October 1949. The party then officially expelled him in October 1950. In his new adopted home, he worked again from 1950 to 1953 as chairman of the so-called exile LDPD .

Web links

Arthur Lieutenant's curriculum vitae on the website of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Works by and about Arthur Lieutenant in the German Digital Library
Newspaper article about Arthur Lieutenant in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

literature

Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Lieutenant, Arthur . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Rosemarie Preuss: Lieutenant, Arthur. In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (eds.): Biographical manual of the SBZ / GDR 1945–1990 . tape 1 . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 481 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Lieutenant, Arthur. (PDF; 349 KB) In: Interpress-Hamburg. October 19, 1949, retrieved on December 24, 2018 (digitized version of the Hamburg World Economic Archive ).
^ Call of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany to the German people of July 5, 1945. (PDF; 1.0 MB) Retrieved on December 24, 2018 (digitized version of the Archives of Liberalism ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lieutenant, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politicians (DDP, LDP), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH	September 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yeah
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1968
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[Interpress-1] A ^b Lieutenant, Arthur. (PDF; 349 KB) In: Interpress-Hamburg. October 19, 1949, retrieved on December 24, 2018 (digitized version of the Hamburg World Economic Archive ).

[2] Call of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany to the German people of July 5, 1945. (PDF; 1.0 MB) Retrieved on December 24, 2018 (digitized version of the Archives of Liberalism ).