Erich Lezinsky

Erich Lezinsky (born May 26, 1886 in Gorgast , Lebus district , † March 6, 1952 in West Berlin ) was a German publisher and politician ( SPD ).

Erich Lezinsky was the son of a forester and attended elementary school . He did an apprenticeship as a printer and went to Berlin in 1904 to work in a printing company in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In the same year he joined the Association of German Book Printers and the SPD. In the First World War Lezinsky was a soldier confiscated . After the war he became an editor at the “New Märkische Volksblatt” in Landsberg an der Warthe , where he was also elected to the city council. In 1925 he changed to the " Spandauer Volksblatt " as an editor . In the Berlin election in 1929 , Lezinsky was elected to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , all SPD city councilors were removed from their office on July 7, 1933 by a resolution of Nazi Reich Minister Wilhelm Frick and Lezinsky was imprisoned first in Spandau and later in the Brandenburg concentration camp . The simultaneous ban on the “Spandauer Volksblatt” made him unemployed. His wife Margarete then opened a tobacco shop, which also enabled him to maintain contacts with the former SPD members. In 1938 Lezinsky got a job at Siemens . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as part of the " Grid Action " .

After the Second World War in 1945, Lezinsky worked as a press officer in the Spandau district office. The following year he was commissioned by the British military government the license to publish the "Spandau people sheet" again. The first edition appeared on March 5, 1946, one of the first German newspapers after the war. In the first Berlin election in October 1946 , Lezinsky was first elected to the district assembly of Spandau, but since Gottlob Münsinger became district mayor of Spandau, Lezinsky moved up to the city ​​assembly of Greater Berlin in January 1947 .

After his death Lezinsky was buried in the Spandau cemetery " In den Kisseln " (grave location: Dept. 140).

literature

• Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Spandau , Berlin: German Resistance Memorial Center 1988, ISSN 0175-3592, passim.
• 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 , p. 271.
• 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. 167 (331 pages).

Web links

• berlin.friedparks.de - biography