Carl Moltmann

Carl Moltmann

Carl Moltmann (born September 23, 1884 in Brüz ; † February 5, 1960 in Schwerin ) was a German politician. He belonged to the SPD until the founding of the state association of the SED Mecklenburgs (April 7, 1946) and was its chairman.

Life

After attending elementary school in Parchim from 1898 to 1901, Carl Moltmann received vocational training as a carpenter . In June 1902 he joined the SPD. From 1903 to 1907 he went on a hike . In 1907 his daughter Luise was born. As early as 1907 he became chairman of the Parchim local group, from 1911 to 1915 of the Schwerin local group and member of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin regional executive committee of the SPD. During the First World War he served as an armored soldier from 1915 to 1918 .

Moltmann was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from January 1919 to June 1933 . In addition, he was party secretary for the southwestern part of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and editor of the social democratic newspaper until 1928 . From 1927 to August 1932 he was a member of the supervisory board of Mecklenburgische Landgesellschaft mbH, a non-profit settlement company operating in Mecklenburg. From October 1928 to May 1933 he was director of the Schwerin employment office. From 1929 to 1933 he was still a city councilor in Schwerin. He was a member of the Reichstag from July 1932 and June 1933. During the time of National Socialism , he made his living from January 1934 to May 1945 as the owner of a tobacco shop in Schwerin. He was temporarily imprisoned in 1944 for his anti-fascist stance.

After the Second World War , in July 1945 he founded the SPD local branch in Schwerin, which he chaired. From August 1945 to April 1946 he was chairman of the SPD state association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. From October 1945 he headed the state labor office and later the department for work and social welfare of the state administration. From April 1946 to 1948 he was together with Kurt Bürger chairman of the state executive committee of the SED in Mecklenburg, thereafter still a member of the executive committee.

Carl Moltmann was appointed as a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Advisory Assembly in 1946 and acted as chairman. He was also elected to the state parliament in the semi-free state elections in the Soviet Zone in 1946 and in the state elections in the GDR based on unit lists in 1950 , where he was president of the state parliament from November 1946 to September 1952.

After the GDR districts were formed , he was a member of the SED district leadership, a member of the district assembly of the Schwerin district and chairman of the district committee of the German Red Cross of the GDR .

In 1954 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. He received the Karl Marx Order in 1959.

literature

• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Moltmann, Carl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Michael Buddrus : Prime Minister for 33 days . In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher , Volume 127, Schwerin 2012, pp. 295–337.

Web links

• Literature about Carl Moltmann in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Carl Moltmann in the state bibliography MV
• Carl Moltmann in the database of members of the Reichstag