Ernst Brandenburg (politician)

v. l. right: The leader of the Graf Zeppelin Dr. Hugo Eckener , Reich Minister of Transport Theodor von Guérard , Ministerialdirektor Ernst Brandenburg (November 1928).

Ernst Brandenburg (born January 17, 1882 in Werne , Bochum district , † March 19, 1952 in Magdeburg ) was a German trade unionist and social democratic politician.

Life

Brandenburg completed a molding apprenticeship after graduating from elementary school and worked as a metal worker until 1911. In Magdeburg he was a board member in the branch of the German Metalworkers' Association . From 1911 to 1914 he was full-time managing director of the metal workers' association in Hildesheim . In April 1914 he became party secretary of the SPD in Stendal . Between 1914 and 1916, Brandenburg was a soldier in World War I , from which he returned home as a war disabled. Then he worked again as a party secretary. Between 1920 and 1933 Brandenburg was a full-time Gauleiter of the agricultural workers' association in Magdeburg.

Between 1917 and 1921 he was a member of the city council in Stendal and since 1919 head of the city council. From 1918 to 1920 he was the chairman of the SPD in the Altmark . Brandenburg had been a member of the Magdeburg-Anhalt district board since 1927. He was also a member of the federal board of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold .

In December 1918, Brandenburg took part in the first Reich Council Congress. Between 1919 and 1921 he was a member of the Prussian constitutional assembly and then until 1933 of the Prussian state parliament .

literature

• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1933, p. 312.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. P. 182.

Web links

• Ernst Brandenburg's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)