Artur Ladebeck

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Artur Ladebeck (born April 17, 1891 in Berlin , † October 12, 1963 in Bielefeld ) was a German educator and politician ( SPD ). After the Second World War he was District Administrator and Lord Mayor of Bielefeld and was also elected to the German Bundestag for one term in 1953.

Time of the Weimar Republic

Ladebeck was born the son of a government official in Berlin. During the First World War , Ladebeck was an officer. During the war he married Luise Friedrichs, with whom he had a son in 1917. He began a teacher training course and after graduating came to Bielefeld. He worked as a primary school teacher at the first citizen school. In 1919 he joined the SPD. He was involved in local education policy. He advocated the introduction of secular instead of denominational schools. Since 1924 he was a member of the comprehensive school committee of the city of Bielefeld. From 1928 he was rector and from 1930 head of the model project of the first so-called collective school in Bielefeld.

He was first elected to the Bielefeld city council as early as 1927. Between 1928 and 1933 he was chairman of the Social Democrats in Bielefeld. He was also an active member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold .

National Socialist rule

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was dismissed from school for political reasons. He was imprisoned for the first time between September and November 1933 for alleged political activities that were dangerous to the state (listening to foreign broadcasters, refusing the Hitler salute). Another arrest took place on January 16, 1934 as a result of a house search as part of the investigation against the Red Shock Troop resistance group in Bielefeld. During his pre-trial detention, Ladebeck confessed to having received several editions of the newspaper "Der Rote Shocktrupp" from his friend Rudolf Preuss. He escaped trial in an unexplained manner and was released. In 1936 he was arrested again for two days. Another two-month detention took place in 1944 as part of the Grid Action .

After his discharge from school he worked professionally as a worker and commercial clerk.

post war period

District Administrator and Lord Mayor

After the end of the war he resumed his duties as rector. Immediately after the end of the war, Ladebeck was appointed District Administrator of the Bielefeld district by the Allied military authorities . He held this office from July 21, 1945 to December 31, 1945. He had also acted confidently towards the British military authorities.

After the re-establishment of the SPD, Ladebeck also played a leading role in the party. He also belonged again to the city council. After the short term of office of Lord Mayor Josef Niestroy , Ladebeck was appointed Lord Mayor. In this office he was confirmed by the first local election. His first term of office lasted from 1946 to 1952. In the subsequent local elections, Hermann Kohlhase (FDP) was elected Lord Mayor with the votes of the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised . During this time he was officially retired as headmaster.

In the middle of the legislative period, new constellations arose as a result of a new electoral law in the Bielefeld council. Ladebeck was again elected mayor, this time he remained in office until 1961. During his term of office the reconstruction of the war-torn Bielefeld fell. In particular, he endeavored to redesign the urban school system. In addition, he tried to promote culture and strengthen the economic area of ​​Bielefeld.

Bundestag and other activities

In addition to his work as mayor, he was a member of the German Bundestag from the federal elections from 1953 to 1957. In parliament he represented constituency 106 Bielefeld-Stadt . He was a full member of the committee for local politics until March 1955 also of the committee for cultural politics.

Ladebeck was a founding member of the Council of European Municipalities in 1950 as well as the International Council in 1953. He was the first German to become an honorary member in 1953.

Honors

  • Artur-Ladebeck-Straße in Bielefeld

See also

literature

  • Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3867322744 [contains a short biography as well as numerous other references to Artur Ladebeck's resistance work during the Nazi era].
  • Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia. Country and people 1946-2006. A biographical manual . Münster, 2006 p. 280
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 475.

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