Erwin Münchow (politician)

Erwin Münchow (born June 19, 1888 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1973 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Parliament and from 1950 to 1954 a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

After secondary school, Erwin Münchow completed an apprenticeship at a teacher training college by 1908 and then worked as a teacher until 1928 . In 1928 he became the school principal in Luckenwalde .

Münchow had been a member of the SPD since 1919. During the Weimar Republic , Münchow was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg from 1924 to 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Münchow was dismissed from school service under the law to restore the civil service. In the period up to 1935 he was imprisoned in the concentration camps Oranienburg , Börgermoor and Lichtenburg . After his dismissal, Münchow worked as a travel agent and later as a deputy manager. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, he was reinstated as school rector in December 1945. After the Second World War, he also joined the Education and Science Union .

In 1948 he was elected to the Dortmund City Council. Münchow was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament as a direct candidate of the SPD in constituency 107 (Dortmund II) in the second electoral term and was a member of the State Parliament from July 5, 1950 to July 4, 1954.

Web links

• Erwin Münchow at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Directory of honorary citizens of the city of Luckenwalde . Retrieved June 29, 2017.