Hans Carl Podeyn

Hans Carl Podeyn (born March 1, 1894 in Hamburg ; † August 19, 1965 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a Hamburg SPD politician of the Weimar Republic and ambassador .

Life

Podeyn was born the son of a tram driver in Hamburg-Hammerbrook . He attended elementary school and then the teachers' college. In 1914 he became an elementary school teacher in Altengamme , a rural municipality in Hamburg. The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his school career because he was drafted. Until 1918 Podeyn took part in the war as an officer. In 1919 Podeyn returned to Altengamme, became a teacher again and was active in local politics for the SPD. Later he was a commercial clerk. From 1924 to 1933 Podeyn was a member of the Hamburg parliament , from 1928 to 1933 as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. He was considered a budget expert for the SPD parliamentary group. On 16./17. In June 1933 he was arrested as part of the Hamburg Echo Assembly and taken into protective custody. In 1934 he was dismissed from public school. He had to start a new life and changed his place of residence nine times for economic reasons. In 1935, Hans Podeyn was again targeted by the Gestapo and suspected of taking part in illegal party work and was temporarily arrested again in 1936.

post war period

From 1946 to 1949, he was Head of Department and Secretary of State in the Food , Agriculture and Forestry Administration of the British Zone and Bizone . After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany , he worked in the diplomatic service and from 1954 to 1959 as ambassador to Pakistan .

literature

Ursula Büttner : Hamburg at the time of the Weimar Republic. State Center for Political Education 1996, ISBN 3-929728-28-1

Web links

Newspaper article about Hans Carl Podeyn in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Helga Kutz-Bauer, Holger Martens: Persecution as a political experience - Hamburg social democrats after 1945 . Ed .: Working group of formerly persecuted social democrats Hamburg. AVS, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-929728-76-7 , pp. 71 .

personal data
SURNAME	Podeyn, Hans Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1965
Place of death	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

[Bauer+Martens-1] Helga Kutz-Bauer, Holger Martens: Persecution as a political experience - Hamburg social democrats after 1945 . Ed .: Working group of formerly persecuted social democrats Hamburg. AVS, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-929728-76-7 , pp. 71 .