Artur Schlesinger

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Artur Schlesinger (born April 18, 1890 in Zittau , † March 28, 1981 in Görlitz ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party LDPD .

biography

Artur Schlesinger with his grandchildren Alexander and Patricia

Schlesinger initially completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and, until 1913, as an automotive engineer. From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . From the 1920s to the 1930s, Schlesinger was a representative of the Adlerwerke with an automobile salon in Görlitz. As a racing driver, he won over 20 car races during this time, for example the 1924 hill climb in Zobten near Breslau .

Schlesinger was of Jewish descent. In 1932 he married the entrepreneur's daughter Margarete Lehmann. This so-called " mixed marriage " saved him as a " half-Jew " through the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich and the Nuremberg Race Laws. His mother, on the other hand, was killed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . In 1944 Schlesinger joined a resistance group. With his comrades in arms he was involved in the handover of the city of Görlitz to the Red Army and was thus able to prevent the destruction of Görlitz.

After the war, Schlesinger went into politics, but also worked as a motor vehicle accident expert. He was a co-founder of the Görlitzer LDPD and from 1949 headed the “Main Traffic Department” in the Saxon State Ministry for Industry and Transport. From September 1951 to July 1952 he was a member of the second cabinet of Prime Minister Max Seydewitz as Minister of Health of the Saxon state government. After the dissolution of the states and the formation of the districts in the GDR, he became a member of the Dresden district assembly and deputy chairman of the district council in August 1952 . Then he was Vice President of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which was re-established in 1954. As a member of the LDPD, he was a member of the 2nd People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone from 1949 and of the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1949 to 1958 . 1954 to 1958 he was the Berlin representative in the Volkskammer . In 1980 he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit .

Artur Schlesinger is the father of Jochen Schlesinger and Peter Schlesinger and the grandfather of the journalist Patricia Schlesinger .

literature

Web links

Commons : Artur Schlesinger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artur Schlesinger . In: Saxon Biography . Published by the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore
  2. ↑ s. Hans Etzrodt: Hill Climb Winners 1897–1949. Part 3 (1924-1926)
  3. ↑ s. Carlheinz von Brück: In the name of humanity: citizens against Hitler . Berlin (East) 1964, p. 123.
  4. ↑ s. Johannes Dieckmann: From his life and work . Berlin (East) 1968, pp. 73f.
  5. ↑ Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber (ed.): The SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Munich 1990, 1993, pp. 145f.
  6. ^ Ministries of the Free State III (from 1945). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 4, 2013 .
  7. ^ Dresden district assembly was constituted . In: Neues Deutschland , August 5, 1952, p. 1.
  8. ↑ see a. Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic . Berlin (East) 1957, p. 288 u. 396.
personal data
SURNAME Schlesinger, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1981
Place of death Goerlitz