Ernst Martens (politician)

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Ernst Martens (born June 24, 1883 in Butterburg , Wesermarsch district ; † October 11, 1981 in Nordenham ) was a German civil engineer and politician ( FDP ). In 1947 he was briefly in the cabinet of Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, Lower Saxony's State Minister for Transport.

Life

After attending the elementary and private school in Esenshamm and the Oberrealschule in Oldenburg , Martens began studying engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Here he became a member of the Darmstadt fraternity of Frisia in 1902 . His training was interrupted in 1904/1905 by his military service as a one-year volunteer . In 1907 he completed his studies with the main diploma examination in construction and began a traineeship as a government construction manager at the Cologne Railway Directorate the following year , where he also worked as a government builder ( assessor ) after passing the second state examination .

From 1914 to 1916 he served as a soldier in the First World War. In 1916 he entered the service of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works , from which he resigned as early as 1920 to move to the board of directors of Julius Berger Tiefbau AG . Shortly before the end of the Second World War, he returned to the Wesermarsch in April 1945 and lived as a farmer on his farm in Alt-Treuenfeld . At the same time he began to get involved politically.

He took over a mandate in the district council of the Wesermarsch district and also served briefly as district administrator of the district in 1946. From January 1946 he was a member of the Appointed Landtag of Oldenburg as a member of the FDP . After the founding of the state of Lower Saxony , he was initially a member of the Appointed State Parliament of Lower Saxony. As the successor to the late Theodor Tantzen , Prime Minister Kopf appointed him to his cabinet on February 11, 1947 as Minister of Transport . He held this office until June 11, 1947.

After the state elections in the spring of 1947, Martens was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for one legislative period and served there as chairman of the transport committee from July to December 1947.

Awards

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 34.
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 313.
  2. ^ Karl Fertsch: The year 1958. In: History of the Darmstadt fraternity Frisia. Volume 3, self-published, Darmstadt 1960, p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Martens, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Butterburg , Wesermarsch district
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1981
Place of death Nordenham