Bruno Lösche

Bruno Lösche (born October 24, 1898 in Magdeburg , † December 10, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Lösche, a trained typesetter , joined the SAJ and the SPD at a young age . As party secretary of the SPD, he published the newspaper “Die Rote Ebert-Siedlung” from 1932 onwards. The Friedrich-Ebert-Siedlung was the social democratic stronghold in Wedding . From 1933, Lösche distributed illegal propaganda material. At the illegal SPD party congress in the spring of 1933 in the “Neue Welt” assembly hall in Neuköllner Hasenheide , he was elected to the illegal party executive committee of the SPD.

On June 22, 1933, Lösche was arrested and taken to the Brandenburg concentration camp . After several months of imprisonment, he was released and again interrogated several times in December 1933. He helped - although even endangered - Jewish party members (including Georg Mendelssohn) to escape and found on the contact point in the milk shop of Max Fechner back connection to the illegal SPD.

From 1946 to 1963, as a councilor for public education, he promoted the public library system in the Berlin district of Tiergarten . From November 1948 to 1951 he was a member of the Berlin city council .

Bruno Lösche had been married to Dora Lösche (1906–1985), née Ludwig , since 1924 . The political scientist Peter Lösche emerged from the marriage.

Honors

On December 10, 1964, the main library of the Tiergarten district was named after Bruno Lösche.

literature

• Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members Persecuted During National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , pp. 274 f.
• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 171 (331 pages).
• Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 104 ff. (Short biography).
• Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance 1933–1945: Wedding, Berlin ( series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 , vol. 1), German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1983, passim.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber, Klaus Keim, Oliver Resche (eds.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 5 [L-O]. trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 119.
• Gerhild HM Komander: The Wedding - On the way from red to colored . Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-929829-38-9 , p. 193.