Friedrich Feldmann (politician)

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Friedrich Feldmann (born October 30, 1871 in Hanover ; † September 19, 1957 ibid) was a German glass worker, health insurer , civil servant , senator , mayor , member of the Hanover provincial council and party functionary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Life

Born into the early days of the German Empire , Friedrich Feldmann first learned to be a glass worker. In 1889 he joined the SPD, where he still had personal contact with August Bebel , the founder of German social democracy .

During the Weimar Republic , Friedrich Feldmann was among other things first chairman of the SPD local association in Hanover. He was one of the founders of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in Hanover, was elected first chairman of both the local association and the district of Hanover and was elected honorary chairman . Feldmann was also mayor of Hanover from February 1919 to December 1929, and from 1920 to 1933 he was also a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament.

In the year of the global economic crisis , Feldmann was elected honorary Senator of Hanover on December 20, 1929 .

In the year the National Socialists seized power , Friedrich Feldmann was re-elected mayor in the local elections on March 12, 1933, but a good four weeks later - on April 12, 1933 - he was re-elected as senator, but then forced to resign from both offices.

After the Second World War in the still young Federal Republic of Germany , Friedrich Feldmann wrote a history of the Hanover local association of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from the founding year 1864 to 1933 .

In 1953 Friedrich Feldmann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Fonts

  • History of the Hanover local association of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from the founding year 1864 to 1933 , 1952

Feldmannhof

With the Feldmannhof street laid out in 1981 in the Hanover district of Ledeburg , the state capital of Hanover has since honored the mayor, senator and SPD chronicler posthumously .

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, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 106-107.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feldmann, Friedrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on March 30, 2006, last accessed on May 9, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Klaus Mlynek : Feldmann, Friedrich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 115.
  3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Feldmannhof , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 77
personal data
SURNAME Feldmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local and state member of parliament, SPD functionary and senator
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1957
Place of death Hanover