Bernhard Poelder

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Bernhard Poelder , also: Pölder (born July 19, 1889 in Gelsenkirchen , † March 18, 1959 in Hanover ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Poelder attended elementary school and initially worked as an office assistant. After further training at a private business school, worked as a clerk and payroll clerk until 1919. From 1909 to 1911 he did military service and from 1915 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He then worked from April 1919 to March 1920 as an assistant foreman on the railroad. He orientated himself in a union and was from April 1920 to April 1921 district and main works council for the railway workshops in Osnabrück . He was then employed as a union secretary at the German Railway Workers' Association (DEV), later the unified association of railway workers in Germany (EdED), from April 1921 to August 1932 in Kirchweyhe and from September 1932 until his dismissal in 1933 in Stendal .

Poelder was a member of the SPD and was elected chairman of the Stendal Social Democrats in 1933. He was also a local councilor in Kirchweyhe from 1924 to 1932, a member of the district council from 1925 to 1932 and a member of the district committee of the Syke district since 1926 . In May 1928 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1932. In parliament he represented constituency 16 (south Hanover).

After the National Socialists came to power , Poelder was dismissed as a trade union secretary and in May 1933 was put into “ protective custody ”. After being mistreated in October 1933 by members of the SA , he had to draw an employee pension from May 1934 due to illness. He was subsequently imprisoned for a short time in June 1934 in Breslau and in August 1937 in Berlin .

After the end of the Second World War , Poelder became politically active again. From July 1945 to March 1946 he was mayor and then city ​​manager in Syke until he retired in November 1947 . In April 1948 he moved to Hanover, where he continued his trade union work. The two SA men who mistreated him in 1933 were sentenced in 1949 to seven months' imprisonment each.

Honors

  • The Poelderstrasse in Weyhe and the Bernhard-Pölder-Strasse in Syke bear his name. In 2013 the Poelder memorial plaque was inaugurated in the Kirchweyhe train station.

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 277-278.
  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 574.
  • Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 614–615 (short biography).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Kutscher: Beaten, kicked and got up again. In: Syker Kurier. November 9, 2013, accessed June 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Poelder, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pölder, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1959
Place of death Hanover