Carl Gehrmann

This article deals with the SPD MP. For the KPD member of the state parliament and district administrator (* April 30, 1884 , † July 27, 1953 ) see Karl Gehrmann .

Carl Gehrmann (born April 28, 1876 in Elbing , East Prussia , † January 25, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician (member of the Prussian state parliament and the Hamburg parliament).

Life

Gehrmann learned after primary school the profession of carpenter and was from 1890 to 1894 on the move . From 1896 to 1898 he was initially active in the anarchist movement, but then joined the SPD in 1898. In 1907 he joined the union. From 1910 he became the SPD party secretary in Zeitz . Before the First World War he moved to the city of Harburg (part of Hamburg since 1937 ). After the war he was again party secretary in his new home and was a member of the Prussian parliament from 1921 to 1933. Apart from the period from October 1922 to July 1923, when he lived in Berlin , he lived in Harburg, where he was one of the leading social democrats.

From June 21 to August 6, 1933, he was taken into protective custody by the National Socialists . After he spread the word that Goebbels had been shot and was therefore not present at the funeral of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , he was arrested a short time later. He was sentenced to four months in prison (August 10 to December 10).

After the Second World War , Gehrmann was appointed to the Appointed Hamburg Citizenship for the SPD in 1946 . He was to be a member of the citizenship in the first two freely elected citizenships from 1946 to 1953. In addition, he took over the SPD chairmanship in Hamburg-Harburg.

literature

• Barbara von Hindenburg: Biographical Handbook of the Members of the Prussian Landtag , 4 parts. Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-67652-3 .
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 (short form on the Internet as a biography of Karl Gehrmann . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ).
• SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, p. 64.
• Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Droste, Düsseldorf 1995.