Georg Neumann (politician)
Georg Neumann (born November 4, 1901 in Wartenberg , Silesia , † January 6, 1963 in Schopfheim ) was a politician of the SPD and was a member of the first Baden-Württemberg state parliament . Due to the sparse file situation and almost no media reception, Klaus Schütt speaks in his biography of one of the forgotten fathers of the country and SPD politician in the southwest.
Life
Neumann grew up as the son of the former Ernst and the mother Antonia geb. Wall in Silesia in what is now Otyń . After elementary school he began an apprenticeship in a construction office, which he broke off on October 1, 1917 in order to take part in the First World War as a cabin boy in the Navy. After the end of the fighting, he stayed afloat from 1919 with various activities. In the wake of the global economic crisis of 1923/24 he was unemployed for several months before he learned the tanning trade from 1925.
In 1932 he married Paula Weihrauch, with whom he raised the sons Hans and Klaus. Neumann saw in 1940 how the Jewish owner of the Sprottau leather factory , where he worked, was expropriated by the Nazis. Neumann, who was now unemployed again, was first required to work in a local wax factory before he was drafted into the Navy on September 10, 1942 - classified by the Wehrmacht as unworthy of defense - without weapons. He was released from British captivity in autumn 1945. In February of the same year Paula fled from Silesia to Karlsbad , but from there she was brought back to Sprottau together with other refugees. In March, the mother and her sons fled again from the advancing Red Army , this time via Cottbus to Friedrichslohra , from there via the Red Cross tracing service to her husband in Neustadt in Holstein .
Neumann worked there for a few months as a woodcutter, became unemployed again and worked for the city of Holstein as a clerk for refugee matters from June 1946 to November 1949. The family moved to Herten and came to Fahrnau via Kürnberg in March 1950 . There they finally settled. Neumann began working as a tanner for the Krafft brothers' shoe factory until he became unemployed again in 1953, as the in-house tannery within the shoe factory was closed. At this time, however, Neumann was already exercising his state parliament mandate. Party friend and Minister of Labor Ermin Hohlwegler found Neumann a job in the Baden-Württemberg State Supply Office in January 1956, where he held the post of clerk in the capital settlement department. After a short illness, Neumann died in January 1963 at the age of 61 in the Schopfheim City Hospital.
Act
Neumann joined the trade union in 1919 and the SPD in 1926. After being brought into line by the National Socialists , he was tried in Breslau in 1936 for preparation for high treason. The prosecution accused him of wanting to restore the banned SPD party and support political prisoners. From March 3, 1936 to June 3, 1937, he served a prison sentence in Görlitz . This conviction presumably spared him the armed mission in World War II .
In his new homeland, Neumann was nominated for the state constitutional assembly in 1952, according to his son Klaus, due to his refugee status and the fact that he was a union member and a member of the SPD . On the state supplement list in the southern Baden district, he was awarded 6th place on the list - out of a total of 19 places. On March 9, 1952, the citizens of Baden-Wuerttemberg elected him to the state constitutional assembly, where Neumann helped found the new south-west state. He was a member of the social policy as well as the committee for expellees and war invalids. After the electoral term ended on March 31, 1956, party-internal opponents who were more popular prevailed against Neumann. He was no longer a member of the Second Baden-Württemberg State Parliament. Neither in the local press such as the Markgräfler Tagblatt nor in the files of the home parish are there any details about his political career or local activities. Only the information service of the state parliament has sources.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neumann, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wartenburg , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1963 |
| Place of death | Schopfheim |