Franz Reuther (politician)
Franz Reuther (born April 15, 1881 in Sirbis , Neustädtischer Kreis , † January 26, 1957 in Brackwede ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
Life
After attending primary school, Reuther completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then went on a hike . In the following years he worked as a bricklayer and plasterer, was involved in the trade union and was chairman of the branch of the German construction workers' association from 1910 to 1914 . From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He was dismissed from military service due to a wound he had suffered.
Reuther was a member of the board of directors of the SPD Rüstringen until 1919 and worked from July 1919 to 1933 as party secretary for the SPD sub-district Schaumburg-Lippe based in Stadthagen , where he was a city councilor of the municipal representation from 1922 to 1933 . From October 1922 to May 1925 he was a full-time member and from April 1929 to April 1931 a part-time member of the state government of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe . In 1925 he was elected as a member of the Schaumburg-Lippische Landtag , to which he belonged until his resignation on April 21, 1933.
After the National Socialists came to power , Reuther was taken into “ protective custody ” from March to May 1933 in the Stadthagen court prison . His release from prison took place only after he resigned his seat in the state parliament and accepted his deportation from Schaumburg-Lippe. Together with him, the SPD MPs Wilhelm Behrens , Wilhelm Kuhlmann and Heinrich Ohlhorst gave up their state parliament mandate to protest against the actions of the National Socialists. Reuther moved to Senne II , but returned in June 1933 and was imprisoned again. In August 1933 he left the country for good. In the following years he was initially unemployed. Between 1938 and 1945 he worked at Bielefeld in the Windelsbleiche metal factory . In 1944 he was imprisoned for a month in the Bielefeld police prison as part of the grating action .
After the end of the Second World War , Reuther returned to Stadthagen in September 1945 and was again secretary of the SPD there in November. From 1946 to 1954 he was district council member and June 1947 to December 1952 district administrator of the district of Schaumburg-Lippe .
From September 17, 1946 to October 29, 1946 he was a member of the Hanoverian Landtag . In addition, he was from December 9, 1946 to March 28, 1947 a member of the Appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament .
Franz Reuther, who had been married since 1906, received compensation after the war. He spent his twilight years in a worker's welfare home for the elderly in Brackwede.
Honors
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, p. 308.
- 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 , p. 294.
Web links
- Franz Reuther's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Franz Reuther (politician) in the online version of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
- Political victims and persecuted persons of National Socialism in Stadthagen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuther, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sirbis |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1957 |
| Place of death | Brackwede |