Georg Raloff

Georg Raloff (born April 9, 1902 in Altona , † October 1, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

Life

Georg Raloff grew up as the son of a worker in a social democratic family in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . From childhood he participated in the socialist youth workers. From 1919 to 1933 he worked in various functions in the SPD - like his parents and his five brothers Karl , Heinrich, Friedrich, Max and Gottlieb. Georg belonged to the Reichsbanner and to the Fichte workers' sports club in Eimsbüttel.

In 1917 Georg started working as a messenger for a grain trading company. In 1929, he went there to officers on, later attorney and business partner. Finally he switched to the Hamburger Echo as a commercial clerk .

Political difficulties

With the seizure of power of the Nazis all siblings lost their professional existence. Brother Karl, member of the Reichstag , workers' council and head of the Reichsbanner in Hanover , first went into hiding in Germany after warnings from the Gestapo , and later managed to escape to Denmark and Sweden .

Lawyer Friedrich volunteered for the Wehrmacht in order to avoid being transferred as a judge to the special court in Kiel . He was killed.

Georg Raloff was arrested on June 16, 1933 on the premises of the Hamburger Echo , together with the Hamburg SPD executive committee that met there. During the interrogations in the Stadthaus , a police building on the Stadthausbrücke, six of his teeth were knocked out. After the accusation of treason and high treason against him could not be confirmed, he was released from so-called protective custody on July 30, 1933 . Further house searches followed and his library with over 400 scientific works was confiscated. For a while he was under police supervision.

After 1945

After the war, Karl Raloff became an attaché at the German embassy in Copenhagen . Heinrich settled down as a lawyer, Max became chairman of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly and a member of the board of the Deutsches Ring, and Gottlieb worked as a senate director in the Hamburg youth authority.

Georg Raloff was appointed head of the foreign trade organization for seeds in 1945 . From 1946 until his death in 1965 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament. The Georg Raloff Ring in Steilshoop was named after him.

Works

• An eventful life - from the German Empire to the Federal Republic. Autobiography, published by the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education 1995, ISBN 3-00-000055-0

literature

• Christel Oldenburg (editor): For Freedom and Democracy - Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Publisher: SPD regional organization Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0637-4
• The Restitution Act by Georg Raloff is located in the Hamburg State Archives