Erwin Barth (politician)

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Erwin Barth (born January 2, 1884 in Culitzsch ; died May 16, 1959 in Hanover ) was a German journalist , police chief of Hanover and an engraver .

Life

Erwin Barth was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . From 1906 to 1910 he worked as an editor for the Franconian Daily Mail in Nuremberg .

Then he moved to the editorial office of the Saxon Volksblatt in Zwickau , where he worked from 1910 to 1914. From 1915 he did military service .

From 1918 to 1920 Erwin Barth was part of the editorial team at Vorwärts .

In 1919 Barth was a member of the Executive Council of the Greater Berlin Workers 'and Soldiers' Council. In 1920 he became a consultant at the Reich Central Office for Homeland Service .

In 1924 Barth became chairman of the workers' press association. He was a personal friend of the Hanoverian President Gustav Noske .

In 1926 Erwin Barth was initially appointed provisional and in 1927 finally police chief of Altona .

From April 1, 1928, Barth worked again as police chief in Hanover . During the Prussian strike , he was immediately transferred into temporary retirement on February 15, 1932.

Towards the end of the Second World War , one day after the occupation of Hanover by the Allies , Erwin Barth was one of a group of Social Democrats who “made themselves available to the British military government for the maintenance and reorganization of public life”. From April 11, 1945, officially from August 1, 1945, he worked again as police director until he was retired on October 31, 1945 by the Public Safety Branch of the British military government.

literature

  • Klaus Mlynek : Barth, Erwin , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 42
  • Dirk Riesener : The Hanover Police Department. Society, industry and the police from the German Reich to the Federal Republic of Germany . Hahn, Hannover 2006, ISBN 3-7752-5926-0 , pp. [269] -270
  • Hermann Willsch: The Hanover Police Department and its presidents . o. O., o. J. [1979]
  • Karl Raloff. An eventful life. From the Empire to the Federal Republic . Introduced and commented by Herbert and Sibylle Obenaus, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, 1995, ISBN 978-3-00-000055-3 and ISBN 3-00-000055-0 , p. 64

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o. V .: Barth, Erwin in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 8, 2009, last accessed on July 6, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Klaus Mlynek: Barth, Erwin , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 42
  3. ↑ Short biography of Erwin Barth in: The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38 , Volume 12 / II, edited by R. Zilch and B. Holtz, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2004, p. 519.
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, editor, politician and police chief of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Culitzsch
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1959
Place of death Hanover