Bruno Bieligk

Oswald Bruno Bieligk (born February 7, 1889 in Freiberg , † January 18, 1969 in Niederhausen ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

Bruno Bieligk was the son of the bricklayer, factory worker and bookseller Hermann Oswald Bieligk and his wife Anna Pöhland. Bruno Bieligk, who was initially of Evangelical Lutheran faith and later left the church, married Rosa Emma Anna Müller.

Bruno Bieligk completed an apprenticeship as a social security employee after attending elementary school and advanced training school. From 1903 to 1913 he was an employee of the local health insurance fund in Gehren . 1913–1915 it worked as an editor for the people's newspaper for Schwarzburg Sondershausen in Arnstadt. He experienced the First World War from 1915 to 1918 as a soldier in the Landsturm. From 1919 to 1933 employee, then managing director of the Gehren local health insurance fund. He later worked as managing director of the Arnstadt district health insurance fund based in Gehren.

politics

In 1906 he joined the SPD . Between 1919 and 1922 he was a member of the USPD . In 1922 he was again a member of the SPD after the unification party congress of the SPD and USPD.

Bruno Bieligk took an active part in shaping the political situation after the First World War. So he was 1919-1933 member of the state parliament of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and then of Thuringia , 1919-1920 as minister of the people in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and in the first cabinet Frölich from October 7, 1921 to September 11, 1923 and in the second cabinet Frölich from From October 16, 1923 to December 7, 1923 (managing director until February 21, 1924), member of the State Council (for Sondershausen). From 1919 to 1933 he was still a district councilor in the Arnstadt district .

As director of the district health insurance fund in Gehren, he was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933 .

Bieligk was in prison from March 30, 1933 to August 20, 1936. First in protective custody, followed by remand and criminal custody . He was accused of "fraud to the detriment of the health insurance company". On December 8, 1933, he was convicted of offenses against the Reich Insurance Code by the Ilmenau jury . The real reason for his imprisonment is more likely to have been his close contact with the SPD politician Hermann Brill , who was an active opponent of the National Socialists.

After the Second World War , he was again an employee of the Arnstadt District Health Insurance Fund in Gehren until August 5, 1945 and then worked in the Thuringian State Office for Labor and Social Welfare. From September 11, 1945 to July 31, 1946, he was senior government councilor, initially head of the resettlement department in the State Office of the Interior, later in the State Office for Local Authorities, Office for New Citizens, and from March, April 1946 clerk for the supervision of the Thuringia State Insurance Institute in the State Office for work and welfare.

In July 1946 he fled the Soviet-occupied zone . In West Berlin , he was a senior government judge at the social insurance office of the State Office for Labor and later a social judge.

He became active again in the SPD and was involved in the executive committee of the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) from 1949 to 1950 . He also became a member of the district assembly in Berlin-Zehlendorf and between 1958 and 1963 was active as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . He spent his old age as a retired social judge.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst : Biographical handbook of the Berlin city councilors and representatives 1946–1963 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Vol. 14). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 70.
• Jochen Lengemann : Landtag and regional representation of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1843–1923 , pp. 149–150.

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  Decision of the Thuringian Higher Regional Court in Jena on the further imprisonment of Bruno Bieligk (SPD) on August 8, 1933. (page 1)

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