Georg Lebert

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Georg Lebert (born January 21, 1897 in Heidesheim am Rhein , † June 4, 1974 in Ingelheim am Rhein ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Georg Lebert was the son of the farmer Georg Lebert and his wife Margaretha, née Conradi. He belonged to the Catholic denomination. On July 22nd, 1921 he married Anna, née Luzius.

After attending primary school, Lebert took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1916 to 1918 . From 1919 he worked as an assistant official at the railway and until 1920 as a railway official at the Reichsbahn .

Lebert began his political engagement during the Weimar Republic . He joined the SPD in 1920 and was later elected chairman of the SPD district association in Bingen, which he chaired until 1933. From September 1920 to 1933 he was an employee in a leading position in the German Railway Workers' Association (DEV) / Union of Railway Workers in Germany (EdED) in Bingen am Rhein . Because of his participation in the "passive resistance" he was sentenced to five years in prison by a French court martial in 1923, but a year later he was pardoned as a result of the London Agreement.

From 1927 Lebert was a member of the municipal council in Heidesheim. From February 1930 to November 1931 he was the successor to the late parliamentarian Heinrich Wilhelm Schaub, a member of the state parliament of the people of Hesse .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Kunze was dismissed in early May 1933 as the unions were broken up. The Nazi persecutors took him into “ protective custody ” several times . He was imprisoned for the first time after the union was brought into line from May 2 to May 20, 1933. In autumn 1933 he was imprisoned for five weeks in the Osthofen concentration camp . He had to endure several house searches and other reprisals from the Nazi authorities. At the Second World War Lebert took part from 1939 to 1941.

After 1945 Lebert worked again as a railway official, first at the Reichsbahn and then at the Federal Railway Directorate in Mainz . In 1948 he was promoted to the Federal Railroad Council. In 1945 Lebert resumed his political activities and was again chairman of the SPD district association in Bingen. In the same year he was appointed First Mayor of Heidesheim by the US military administration. He held this position until December 1945. From October 19, 1956, when he replaced the resigned MP Heinz Brühne , until 1962 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. Volume 15, Arani, Berlin 1967. p. 1118.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 237.
  • Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 561-562 (short biography).
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 512.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 171.

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personal data
SURNAME Lebert, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidesheim on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1974
Place of death Ingelheim am Rhein