Hans Oldorf

Hans Oldorf (born April 30, 1896 in Köchelstorf ; † October 7, 1964 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

Born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Oldorf came to Lübeck with his parents at the age of four . There he attended elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer. During his apprenticeship he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . After his apprenticeship, he worked as a journeyman in the Rhineland , the Ruhr area and in Kiel . He was a soldier from 1915 to 1919. He initially worked for the Lübeck-Büchener Railway , but became unemployed in 1930. In 1931 he was sentenced to fifteen months in prison for illegally possessing weapons, but received an amnesty after six months. From April 1933 to April 1935 he was held by the National Socialists without trial in various prisons and in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. From December 1935 to June 1936 he was imprisoned again for allegedly preparing for high treason , but was not convicted. After his release, he worked in mechanical engineering again until he was drafted into military service in the Air Force in 1939. During the Second World War he was charged with a field court for degrading military strength , but the case was dropped.

Political party

As a teenager, Oldorf joined the socialist youth workers . He joined the SPD in 1922 and took part in the founding of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Lübeck in 1924 , where he became the local leader of the technical department. In the early 1930s he was the SPD district chairman in Lübeck.

From 1945 Oldorf participated in the reconstruction of the SPD in Lübeck and in 1946 became its second chairman. He was a delegate to the first post-war party congress of the SPD, which took place from April 8 to 11, 1946 in Hanover . From July 1951 until his retirement in 1962 he was subdistrict secretary in the subdistrict Mittelholstein, based in Neumünster .

MP

Oldorf was a member of Lübeck's citizenship in 1932/33 and again from 1946 to 1951. From June 24, 1946, he belonged to the two appointed state parliaments of Schleswig-Holstein and then until 1954 also to the first two elected state parliaments of the northernmost state, where he represented the constituency of Lübeck-Ost . From November 27, 1947 to 1950 he was chairman of the Landtag's transport committee. The Landtag elected him a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as the first Federal President on September 12, 1949 .

Web links

• Hans Oldorf in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein