Erwin Loitsch

Erwin Gustav Alwin Loitsch (born October 29, 1885 in Neukretscham , † November 17, 1960 in Steinhude ) was a German administrative officer and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Erwin Loitsch was born the son of a building contractor. After graduating from primary school in 1899, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter until 1903 and attended the state building trade school in Görlitz for three years . He then worked as a construction technician for the city administration in Graudenz . In 1910 he moved to the back office of the Reichsbahndirektion Hannover and worked from 1913 to 1914 as a railway foreman in Lesum . From 1907 to 1909 he did military service and from 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . During the war he was entrusted with the management of rail transport in Brussels . After the end of the war, as a member of the German Armistice Commission, he was involved in the handover of the railway to Belgium .

After his return to Germany in 1919, Loitsch was again active in the railway service, initially again in his previous position in Lesum, then until 1923 as railway foreman in Lindhorst . As a member of the SPD, he was elected to the state parliament of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe in 1922, to which he belonged until 1933. For the entire duration of his membership in parliament, he held the office of President of the State Parliament.

At the same time he was from July 1923 until his impeachment by the National Socialists in March 1933 district administrator of the district of Bückeburg . Since he had opposed the raising of the swastika flag in the district office on March 8, 1933 , he withdrew to Steinhude, where he was monitored by the SA . Due to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service , he was transferred in June 1933 to retire. From 1937 to 1945 he worked as a tax advisor. In August 1944, he was imprisoned for eight days as part of the " Operation Grid ".

After the Second World War , the British military government initially put him in charge of the Schaumburgisch-Lippe state government. Loitsch turned down this offer, however, and instead preferred to re-head the district office in Bückeburg, which he held from May 1945 to March 1946. From April 1946 until his retirement in June 1948 he was senior district director. In 1956, he was compensated for the injustice he suffered during the time of National Socialism and the material losses.

Erwin Loitsch had been married since 1910.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 223-224.

Web links

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