August Berlin (politician)

August Berlin (* 2. February 1910 in Brake / lip ; † 11. July 1981 in Lemgo ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After elementary school, Berlin, which was non-denominational , completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. He worked in this profession until 1945. In 1933 he was taken into protective custody. From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier .

Political party

Even as a teenager, Berlin was involved in the socialist youth workers . In 1928 he joined the SPD. In the last years of the Weimar Republic , Berlin was used by the SPD in the election campaigns to protect Felix Fechenbach , who was constantly threatened by the National Socialists and who was finally killed on August 7, 1933. In 1945 he became the full-time secretary of the Social Democrats for the Lipperland.

MP

After the Second World War, Berlin was elected to the city council of Lemgo , where he chaired the SPD parliamentary group, and the district council of the Lemgo district.

He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election from 1949 to 1972 and was always directly elected in the constituency of Detmold (since 1965 Detmold - Lippe ).

Honors

• 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1973: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• A. Ruppert: August Berlin estate. Detmold 1993
• 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. 60.

Web links

• Literature from and about August Berlin in the catalog of the German National Library