Bruno Leddin

Bruno Leddin (born February 17, 1898 in Berlin , † March 25, 1951 in Hanover ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

The son of a railway official first attended elementary school. After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Stolp from 1912 to 1914, Leddin was initially a clerk in Stettin until 1916 . During the First World War he was a soldier from 1916 to 1918. After the war he joined the USPD , but switched to the SPD in 1919. He worked in Stolp from 1918 to 1925 as the head of the municipal rental agreement office. Then he was union secretary at the German Agricultural Workers' Association for the districts of Stolp and Lauenburg until the trade unions were banned in 1933 . Leddin was city councilor in Stolp, chairman of the AOKand managing director of the new union building. From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Pomeranian Provincial Parliament .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was repeatedly arrested in 1933 and finally from Pomerania reported. He moved to Hanover, where he worked from 1934 to 1944 as a clerk at the Dreyer & Grupen cloth wholesaler. During the war he returned to Stolp.

In 1945 Leddin fled to Hanover , where he was head of the social welfare office from 1947. He was a council member in Hanover, a member of the appointed Lower Saxony state parliament and in 1948/49 of the economic council of the Bizone . He was a member of the German Bundestag from the first federal election in 1949 until his death. He represented the constituency of the city of Hanover-North in parliament and was chairman of the Bundestag committee for questions relating to victims of war and prisoners of war.

Leddin had been a social democrat since 1918 and most recently a member of the SPD federal executive committee.

literature

• Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 226.
• 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. 489.