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August Hagedorn (ca.1965)

August Hagedorn , even August Friedrich Hagedorn (*, 2. August 1888 in Bremen ; † 24. December 1969 in Bremen) was SPD - politicians and from 30 October 1946 to November 4, 1966 President of the Bremen City Parliament .

biography

education and profession

Hagedorn was the son of a large Bremen wagoner . He completed a commercial apprenticeship and from 1906 worked for the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) in Bremen. In 1933 he was head of auditing at the AOK when he was dismissed for political reasons under pressure from the National Socialists . He received the letter of resignation in the prison cell, where he was in protective custody for political reasons . From 1933 to 1945 he worked as an auditor and tax advisor . From 1945 he worked for the AOK again and became its director in 1948.

politics

Hagedorn became a member of the SPD in 1910. From 1917 to 1922 he was a member of the USPD and in 1918/19 held a leading position for the Bremen Soviet Republic until the SPD and the USPD reunited in 1922.

Hagedorn was a member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly from 1919 to 1920 and a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1922 to 1933 . At the beginning of 1933 he was temporarily taken into protective custody by the National Socialists during the Bremen era of National Socialism and his citizenry mandate was revoked.

After the Second World War he was again a member of the Bremen citizenship on April 6, 1946. He was briefly chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Appointed Bremen Citizenship .

On October 30, 1946 he was elected President of the Bremen Citizenship. Until 1966 he held this office - always re-elected unanimously. His successor was Hermann Engel (SPD) on November 9, 1966 .

Hagedorn's great "reputation was based on its mediating tolerance". The newspapers wrote, among other things: "All political parties, factions, groups gave him their undivided trust". The MPs called him "the good and just father of the citizenry". Despite very heated arguments, he was the "dormant pole in the House".

In 1947 Hagedorn was a member of the Parliamentary Council of the State Council of the American Occupation Area . In the following year he was the representative of Bremen in the Landerat der Bizone , i.e. the American and British occupation zones. The citizenship elected him in 1949 and 1954 as a member of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

House of Citizenship

Hagedorn played a key role in the design of the House of Citizens on Bremen's market square , which was designed by Wassili Luckhardt and inaugurated in 1966 .

In 1969, after a state ceremony, Hagedorn was buried in the Riensberg cemetery , grave location EE 368/369. The Weser-Kurier quotes: "For his successor Hermann Engel, August Hagedorn is 'probably the most important of the presidents in office in the history of Bremen's citizens since 1948'."

Honors

Fonts

  • House of Citizenship on the market in Bremen. Report of the President of the Citizenship on the establishment of the House of the Citizenship on the east side of the market square from October 25, 1961. Bremen 1961.

literature

Web links

Commons : August Hagedorn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adamietz: The fifties. P. 102.
  2. ↑ Werner Kloos: Bremer Lexikon , p. 138.
  3. ↑ Bremer Bürger-Zeitung of January 2, 1970, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Weser-Kurier of October 30, 1956 p. 5.
  5. ↑ Bremer Nachrichten of December 27, 1969, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Weser-Kurier of December 31, 1969, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hawthorn, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagedorn, August-Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and President of the Bremen Citizenship (1946–1966)
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1969
Place of death Bremen