Friedrich Klenke

Friedrich Klenke (born October 20, 1882 in Bremen , † April 26, 1959 in Bremen) was a German trade union official, AOK director and Bremen politician ( SPD ).

biography

Family, education and work

Klenke was the son of a master shoemaker. He attended elementary school from 1889 to 1897. He worked as a housekeeper, then from 1899 as a window cleaner and later as a trade and transport worker. From 1912 to 1928 he was an employee of the transport workers' association in Bremen and in between 1915 to 1917 he served as a soldier in the First World War and he was disabled. From 1920 to 1928 he was chairman and from 1928 to 1933 second director of the local health insurance fund (OKK) Bremen and from 1920 to 1923 member of the supervisory board of the consumer association Vorwärts in Bremen.

From 1945 to 1948 he was the first director of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Bremen / Bremerhaven (AOK).

He was married to Henriette Blume and the father of three children, two sons, the younger of whom died in Russia during World War II, and a daughter. One of his granddaughters is the writer Hella Eckert, b. Klenke from Bremen, who now lives near Heidelberg.

politics

Klenke became a member of the trade union in 1899 and the SPD in 1904. From 1903 to 1905 he was chairman of the local association of window cleaners, from 1904 to 1905 a board member in the SPD district of Bremen-Neustadt and 1904/05 and since 1908 a member of the district board of the transport workers' association in Bremen. In 1914 he was a board member of the union cartel and a member of the SPD education committee in Bremen. In 1918 he became a member of the Bremen citizenship.

After the First World War he was a member and first vice-president of the constituent Bremen national assembly from 1919/1920 and from 1920 to 1930 a member and vice-president of the Bremen citizenship .

In 1933, during the Nazi era , he was temporarily imprisoned in a concentration camp .

swell

• Friedrich Klenke's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)