Emil Kraft (politician, 1898)

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Emil Kraft (born August 10, 1898 in Wilhelmshaven - Rüstringen , † February 20, 1982 in Lübeck ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

After attending elementary school, Kraft completed an apprenticeship as a shipbuilder at the imperial naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven, passed the journeyman's examination in 1915 and applied as an airship builder for the imperial navy. He was trained at "Zeppelin" in Friedrichshafen and at "Schütte-Lanz" in Mannheim and was deployed to Wittmundhafen as a fitter at the Marin airship site there. He stayed here until the end of the war and, with his colleagues, repaired the airship L 61, which had to be delivered to Italy as a reparation payment. As a "stowaway" he made the last test drive of the L 61 mi. He wrote an impressive report about this trip, which was published in a daily newspaper. After the war, around 1920, he resumed his work as a shipbuilder in the naval shipyard in Wilhelmshaven and on December 21, 1927 passed his master craftsman examination as a shipbuilder.

Since 1917 a member of the trade union and the SPD, he was a city councilor in Wilhelmshaven until 1933. On May 22, 1933, he was dismissed from service "for lack of work". The real reason for his dismissal, however, was that he was an SPD and a union member. On July 28, 1933, he took up a new job as a steel worker at the company "Norddeutscher Eisenbau" in Sande . Here, after training, he was given a position as foreman.

In 1943 the company appointed him operations manager, which he remained until he left on April 30, 1947.

On August 22, 1944, during the " Aktion Gewitter ", Emil Kraft was arrested by the Nazis with many of his former political comrades-in-arms, but - in contrast to many of those arrested - came to the OKM ( High Command of the Navy ) as a result of the intervention of Director Krombach , with conditions to report to the Gestapo daily , released again. The reason for this was that the North German Ironworks, which built submarine centerpieces during the war years, had the only master shipbuilder in it.

From June 5, 1946, Emil Kraft was a member of the Oldenburg Landtag, appointed by order of the military government, and was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group here until the state of Oldenburg was dissolved and incorporated into the state of Lower Saxony. Here he was elected member of the state parliament in Wilhelmshaven for the first and second electoral periods, member of the constitutional committee, on the council of elders and chairman of the internal administration committee. From 1947 he worked as an editor of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundschau in Wilhelmshaven , because at the same time he helped rebuild the SPD, whose district chairman of the "Weser-Ems" district he became.

From 1953 to 1965 he was Labor Director at the Lübeck Metallhüttenwerk, a company with 2,600 employees.

Emil Kraft was chairman of the Weser-Ems district of the SPD. In 1952 he published his commemorative publication 80 Years of the Labor Movement Between Sea and Moor .

Works

• Eighty years of workers' movement between sea and moor: A contribution to the history of political movements in Weser-Ems . Self-published, Wilhelmshaven 1952, DNB 1022355465