Franz Rudnitzki

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Franz Rudnitzki (born March 29, 1883 in Elbing ; † May 8, 1972 in Bremerhaven ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD ).

Life

Franz Rudnitzki was born the son of a carpenter. After graduating from elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1899 to 1903 and attended an advanced training school at the same time. From 1906 to 1908 he also attended the commercial training school in Elbing. He worked as a carpenter until 1918. In 1903 he joined the union and in 1907 he joined the SPD. After splitting off from the SPD, he became a member of the USPD, whose party newspaper Elbinger Volksstimme he headed as managing director from 1919 to 1920. From 1920 to 1930 he worked for the general local health insurance fund in Elbing.

Rudnitzki became a member of the SPD again in 1922. From 1920 to 1930 he was a city councilor in Elbing, temporarily chaired the city council assembly and was an unpaid councilor from 1924 to 1930. He was also a board member of the Prussian City Council from 1921 to 1930. In 1928 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1932. From 1930 until his temporary retirement on March 8, 1933, he was the district administrator of the Angerburg district .

Rudnitzki was arrested during the Nazi era and interned in the Stutthof concentration camp from August to September 1944 .

After the Second World War , Rudnitzki went to Magdeburg as a displaced person , where he was in charge of the resettlement office from 1945 to 1947. In the course of the “ compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED ”, he became a member of the SED in 1946 . He lived at Ottenbergstrasse 17 in the Alte Neustadt district . From May 1947 to March 1951 he was head of the personnel department of the tax offices and head of the finance department and from April 1951 until his retirement in September 1952 he was acting head of department at the Ministry of Finance in Halle .

In 1965 Rudnitzki moved to the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book of the city of Magdeburg 1950-51 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle (Saale), part I, page 500