Ernst Wittmaack

Ernst Wittmaack (born August 28, 1878 in Heiligenstedten , † September 20, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Wittmaack attended elementary school from 1884 to 1893 and then completed an apprenticeship as a hairdresser , which he completed in 1896 with the assistant test. He then worked as a hairdresser's assistant until 1904. Between 1900 and 1905 he was an honorary member of the main board of the Association of Barbers and the Association of Barber Assistants. From 1904 Wittmaack worked as an editor of social democratic newspapers, initially as a substitute for the Volkszeitung in Rostock and from 1905 to 1920 for the Volksstimme in Magdeburg . He joined the SPD and was temporarily a member of the SPD district committee in Magdeburg. He was also a city ​​councilor in Magdeburg from 1910 to 1920 and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there.

During the November Revolution , Wittmaack was chairman of the executive committee of the Magdeburg Workers 'and Soldiers' Council . Between May 1918 and 1933 he was chairman of the SPD in Magdeburg. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian constitutional assembly and then until 1933 of the Prussian state parliament . From November 27, 1931 to May 23, 1932 he was President of Parliament. He was also a member and vice-president of the Provincial Parliament for the Province of Saxony since 1920 . In March 1920, after the end of the Kapp Putsch , Wittmaack was government commissioner for the administrative district of Magdeburg . From September 1920 to 1933 he was a paid city ​​councilor in Magdeburg. In addition, since 1928 he was chairman of the port association for the Elbe and the eastern waterways as well as a member of the Reich Waterways Advisory Board.

With the beginning of the National Socialist rule , Wittmaack lost all offices. He moved to Berlin and worked there initially as a representative, later as a clerk at the electrical industry group. Wittmaack's funeral was also a silent protest demonstration, for which numerous Social Democrats gathered.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 400.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 1713.
• Ernst Wittmaack . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Vol. 1, Hannover 1960, pp. 336-337.

Web links

• Ernst Wittmack's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Ernst Wittmaack in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
• Beatrix Herlemann : Wittmaack, Ernst (short biography Uni Magdeburg)