Arthur Seidel

Arthur Seidel (born January 26, 1883 , † November 2, 1964 in Bremerhaven ) was a Bremen politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Seidel worked as a tiler in Bremerhaven.

He had been a member of the SPD since 1900 at the age of seventeen. He gained experience as a local union leader for the construction workers' association. On May 2, 1933, he and other union leaders were arrested by the Nazi SA . His son then secretly backed up the most important union documents from the Eintracht union building at Deichstrasse 55, which was occupied by the Nazis .

On October 22, 1945, Seidel was a co-founder of the SPD after the Second World War in Wesermünde in the Pestalozzi School and a member of the founding board of the SPD Wesermünde.

From February 1947 to 1955 he was a member of the first to third elected Bremen citizenship and was active in various deputations of the citizenship.

His daughter was the member of parliament Marie Nejedlo born. Seidel, who, like her father, was a member of the citizenship from 1947 to 1975.

He was on the Bremerhaven Cemetery in Wulsdorf buried

swell

• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
• Klaus Wedemeyer (Hrsg.): Wanted and enforced: The SPD parliamentary group of the state of Bremen from the turn of the century to the present. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1983.