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Ernst Loops (born November 14, 1891 in Danzig ; † November 3, 1974 in Wernigerode ) was a German politician ( SPD and Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig ) and senator in the Free City of Danzig .

Life

Loops attended secondary school in Gdansk and Marienburg ("Tertia" degree) and then the preparatory institute in Gdansk and the teacher training college in Marienburg without graduating there.

From 1910 to 1919 he worked as an office worker in Berlin and Danzig. Between August 1919 and 1920 and from 1921 to December 1929 he was editor of the "Danziger Volksstimme", an SPD newspaper. From 1920 to 1921 he was managing director in Danzig and Gauleiter of the Central Association of Employees based in Dresden . December 1929 to 1932 he was editor of the "Volksblatt" in Halle an der Saale . Due to illness, he stopped this job and had been a pensioner since January 1933.

In 1912 he joined the SPD. In the Reichstag election in 1919 he ran unsuccessfully in constituency LP16 constituency 2 (West Prussia province).

In the People's Day election in Danzig in 1923 he was elected to the People's Day for the SPD , to which he belonged until 1929. After the government crisis in 1925, he was elected as a part-time senator in August 1925. After the coalition collapsed, he resigned from the Senate of the Free City of Danzig in January 1926 . In January 1929 he was re-elected as a part-time member of the Senate, to which he was a member until November 1929.

In 1932 he left the SPD and lived in Sopot and Danzig since 1935 . From October 1945 until his death he lived in Wernigerode (Harz). There he was, among other things, the long-time chairman of the Wernigerode local group of the cultural association for the democratic renewal of Germany (later the GDR cultural association).

Works

• History of the Gdansk Labor Movement , Gdansk, 1929.

Web links

• Ernst Loops biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)