Friedrich Nowack

Friedrich Nowack

Friedrich Nowack (born December 31, 1890 in Neuchâtel , West Prussia , † April 13, 1959 in Hamburg ) was a German social democratic politician and trade unionist.

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Nowack was originally a farm worker. From 1906 to 1920 he worked as a factory worker in Harburg , interrupted by his participation in the First World War . From 1920 to 1933 Nowack was the full-time managing director of the factory workers' association in Harburg- Wilhelmsburg .

In 1919 he joined the USPD , of which he was chairman in Harburg from 1920 to 1922. When the rest of the USPD joined in 1922, he also joined the SPD . From 1919 to 1933 Nowack was a local politician in Harburg. From 1924 to 1933 he was also a member of the Reichstag . During the Nazi era , Nowack was imprisoned three times for political reasons.

After the Second World War , he again represented his party in the Harburg municipal parliament from 1945 to 1949. From 1945 to 1955 he was managing director of the chemical, paper, ceramic union in Harburg and chairman of the DGB local committee . He was also a member of the zone committee of the trade unions.

Nowack also belonged to the German Bundestag in its first legislative period from 1949 to 1953 as a directly elected member of the constituency of Lüneburg - Dannenberg .

literature

• 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

• Literature by and about Friedrich Nowack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Nowack in the database of members of the Reichstag