Fritz Hausberg

Fritz Hausberg (born January 2, 1880 in Schüren , today in Dortmund , † November 16, 1959 in West Berlin ) was a German liberal politician .

Life

Hausberg, a technical draftsman by profession , later worked as chief designer and senior engineer at AEG . From 1904 he was organized in the technicians' union. From 1907 he was a member of the Liberal Association , from 1910 of the Progressive People's Party and from 1918 of the DDP and DStP .

He was director of the Social Policy Department of the Berlin big business and for DStP city councilor of Berlin. In 1933 he was released at the instigation of the National Socialists .

In 1945, Hausberg belonged to the Antifa committee of the Berlin district of Wedding . In July 1945 he was co-founder of the LDP in Berlin and deputy state chairman of the LDP. After Martin Stritte's resignation , he became interim chairman of the LDP Berlin in February 1946. From July 1946, Hausberg was also a member of the LDP's central board.

From 1946 to 1950 he was a city councilor of the LDP and FDP , from 1950 to 1958 a member and from 1952 vice-president of the Berlin House of Representatives. From 1947 to 1954 he was district councilor and district councilor for health in the Wedding district.

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In January 1955 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In November 1955 he was named city ​​elder of Berlin .

Hausberg is buried in a grave of honor on the II. Reinickendorf Municipal Cemetery.

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch (ed.): Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Vol. 1. Francke, Bern / Munich 1963, p. 481.
• Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 4. Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1995, p. 446.
• Hans-Volker Schwarz: The Berlin Liberals in the focus of the East-West conflict 1945-1956. From the regional association of the LDP Greater Berlin to the FDP Berlin (West) and LDP (D) Berlin (East) . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007, ISBN 3-631-55831-7 , pp. 660f.
• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 118 (331 pages).