Arthur Luck

Arthur Luck (* 1895 in Sonneborn ; † 1962 ) was a German trade union official , local politician ( SED ) and consumer cooperative .

Life

Luck came from a farming family. His father was a shepherd . After attending primary school, he learned the profession of upholsterer . In 1912 he joined the trade union and became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). After his traveling time as a journeyman he had from 1916 to 1919 as an Army soldier on World War I attend, where he was severely wounded. From 1919 to 1922 he worked in the Gotha wagon factory , where he trained as a businessman . In 1920 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and became secretary there in 1922 . From 1925 to 1931 he was managing director of the Gotha consumer association until the cooperative went bankrupt . During these years he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), but was expelled in 1929 and became a member of the Communist Party (Opposition) (KPO). Before 1933 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1931 to 1933 he worked as a secretary of the Association of Thuringian consumer associations.

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, he was unemployed for several years and was briefly imprisoned several times . From 1939 to 1945 he worked as a material manager and driver in a company in Gotha.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated in 1945, he joined the Association of Democratic Socialists (BDS) in June and shortly afterwards the re-established SPD. From May 1945 he was head of the district economic office, from July 1945 district administrator in Gotha and also district chairman of the SPD. As a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), he attended the SED state party school from January to May 1949, but was relieved of his office as district administrator due to “political errors”. He later worked for the Thuringian Raiffeisen Cooperative in Erfurt .

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 559