Friedrich Larssen

Friedrich Larssen

Friedrich Larssen (born October 28, 1889 in Lüne , † September 16, 1971 in West Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Larssen attended elementary school . From 1904 to 1908 he learned the papermaking trade. He then worked as a skilled worker in various paper mills. As a young man he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). At the same time he also became a member of the factory workers' union .

From August 1914 to November 1918, Larssen took part in the First World War. After returning from the war, in which he was deployed as a member of an infantry unit and a machine gun unit, he became a union employee in the German Agricultural Workers' Association . As early as 1919 he became a member of the city council in Ragnit in East Prussia , of which he was a member until 1924. In July 1920, Larssen also took on the role of full-time Gauleiter of the agricultural workers' association, which he retained until June 1928. Since 1920 Larssen was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia, to which he belonged until 1933, from 1928 to 1930 as deputy chairman. He also sat on the provincial committee from 1930 to 1933.

From 1923 to 1924 Larssen chaired the SPD in Ragnit for a short time. From July 1928 to July 1929, Larssen was the workers' secretary in Königsberg . From August 1929 to November 1929 he was employed as a consultant for job placement at the East Prussia State Labor Office in Königsberg. In December 1929 he became district party secretary of the SPD for East Prussia, based in Königsberg.

A year later, in September 1930, Larssen was elected as his party's candidate for constituency 1 (East Prussia) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged from then on until the summer of 1933. Larssen's mandate was subsequently confirmed by three elections - in July and November 1932 and in March 1933. From 1930 to 1931 Larssen was a member of the Prussian State Council .

In March 1933, just two months after the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”, Larssen and the other members of the SPD parliamentary group voted against the Enabling Act , which, together with the Reichstag Fire Ordinance of February of the same year, formed the basis for the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship. He was one of only ninety-six MPs who refused to approve this work.

Larssen was arrested in August 1933. Until December he was held in the Gestapo prison in Berlin, in the Columbiahaus and Brandenburg concentration camps . He was later detained for short periods of time several times.

After the war, Larssen rejoined the SPD. He became the regional labor court director. From 1946 to 1948 he held the position of head of the Berlin district council assembly . At the end of his career, Larssen sat from 1954 to 1962 in the district assembly of Berlin-Tempelhof .

literature

• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 .
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Friedrich Larssen in the database of members of the Reichstag