Friedrich Profit
Friedrich Profit (born May 19, 1874 in Zweibrücken , † August 18, 1951 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
Profit was the son of a master carpenter and attended elementary school. After training as a locksmith from 1888 to 1890, he joined the German Metalworkers' Association in Düsseldorf in 1892 . On his wandering he was active in trade unions in various German cities. He completed his military service from 1894 to 1896. In 1897 he came to the Palatinate Railways in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and organized the establishment of a local cell for the railway workers' union. After his release in April 1898, he first worked in a Mannheim machine factory and from 1900 to 1906 at the AOK and headed the union cartel .
politics
Profit joined the SPD in Berlin in 1892 . In 1898/99 he was editor of the party newspaper Pfälzische Post . In 1906 he became the party's full-time secretary, which he remained until 1921. After the death of Franz Josef Ehrhart , he rose to become the leading social democrat in the Palatinate. From 1909 to 1920 he was a member of the city council of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. From 1912 to 1920 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . He was a member of the Versailles delegation as an expert on questions relating to the Palatinate. From 1921 to 1933 he was first active as a senior government councilor and advisor in the Reich Ministry of Labor and later as Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry for Occupied Territories. In 1923 he was Reich Commissioner and Chairman of the Ruhr Defense Committee Mannheim / Heidelberg. After 1945 he participated in the reconstruction of the Palatinate SPD.
literature
- Friedrich Profit . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, p. 242.
- Peter Ruf: Ludwigshafen deputy in the state parliament, Reichstag and Bundestag . Ludwigshafen 1993, ISBN 3-924667-20-9
- City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (ed.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 1., From the beginnings to the end of the First World War . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7
Web links
- Friedrich Profit in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Friedrich Profit in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Thalmann: The Palatinate in the First World War, p. 400.
- ^ Administration and politics in the occupied Palatinate during the Weimar Republic, Helmut Gembries, p. 452 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Profit, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zweibrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1951 |
| Place of death | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |