Franz Ehrhardt

Franz Ehrhardt

Franz Ferdinand Ehrhardt (born July 15, 1880 in Fuhrbach , today Duderstadt , † July 6, 1956 in Cologne-Deutz ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

Life and work

After attending primary school in Fuhrbach, Ehrhardt completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Hanover from 1894 to 1897 . After initially working in the profession he had learned, he was union secretary at the Central Association of Christian Construction Workers from 1905 . He took part in the First World War as a non-commissioned officer until 1917 . From the beginning of 1918 until the November Revolution he was a speaker in the Prussian Enlightenment Department of the War Food Office . He wrote for various Christian trade union newspapers and daily newspapers related to the center. From 1919 he was chairman of the AOK in Katowice . After the Second World War he came back to Lower Saxony as a displaced person.

Ehrhardt was General Secretary of the Upper Silesian Center Party from 1920 to 1922. Following this activity until April 1926, he worked for the Oberschlesische Volksstimme and other newspapers. From April 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Provincial Council of Upper Silesia in Ratibor. After the " seizure of power " in 1933 he was dismissed from all offices because he was classified as politically unreliable. From 1933 to January 1945 he was employed as a director of an insurance company. In 1944 he was imprisoned in Ratibor prison for a month for political reasons.

Political party

Ehrhardt already belonged to the center during the German Empire and later in the Weimar Republic . In 1945 he participated in the founding of the CDU.

MP

Ehrhardt was a city councilor in Katowice from 1907 to 1919 . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . He was then a member of the Reichstag until 1933 . He was also a member of the Upper Silesian Provincial Parliament between 1922 and 1933. From April 20, 1947 to April 30, 1951, he was a member of the state parliament in the first electoral term of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Since March 28, 1951, he belonged to the DP / CDU parliamentary group.

literature

• 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, pp. 83–84.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Ehrhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Ehrhardt in the database of members of the Reichstag