Hellmut Kalbitzer

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Hellmut Kalbitzer (born November 17, 1913 in Hamburg ; † February 4, 2006 there ) was a German SPD politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life and work

Hellmut Kalbitzer was born in 1913 as the son of a Hamburg cigar manufacturer. After finishing school he worked in his father's company. On business trips he used to socialize with politically like-minded people. Since 1934 Kalbitzer was a member of a Hamburg group of the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) in the resistance against National Socialism. In 1936 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned for two years for “preparation for high treason”. After his release, he was active in the resistance.

In 1945 Kalbitzer was initially involved in the founding of the Socialist Free Trade Union (SFG) and was elected to one of five members of the executive board. After the dissolution of the SFG, he participated in the development of the DGB in Hamburg. In 1954 he founded the New Society in Hamburg with former social democratic resistance fighters . He later worked as a development worker in Kenya . Hellmut Kalbitzer was married to the member of parliament Emmi Kalbitzer and had three children.

Hellmut and Emmi Kalbitzer were buried in the Blankenese cemetery , grave location: Quartier K No. 106-107.

Political party

As a young man, Kalbitzer became a member of the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK). After the end of the Second World War, he was initially involved in talks with the KPD to found a united socialist party and, after the dissolution of the ISK in autumn 1945, he and his wife played a key role in the re-establishment of the SPD in Hamburg. For many years he was a member of the SPD state executive in the Hanseatic city. He was also active in the reconstruction of the Germany-wide SPD under Kurt Schumacher .

MP

Kalbitzer was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1948/49, from 1966 to 1970 and from 1978 to 1982 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from the first election from 1949 to 1965 , to which he was directly elected in 1949 and 1953 via the state list and then directly in the Hamburg I constituency. Kalbitzer was particularly active in parliament for development policy . During the budget deliberations for 1956, together with CDU member Paul Leverkuehn , he succeeded in increasing the budget for “promoting economically underdeveloped countries” from DM 3.5 million to DM 50 million.

From February 27, 1958 to January 22, 1964 he was also a member of the European Parliament , of which he was Vice President from March 1958 to March 1962.

Publications

  • Developing countries and world powers , European Publishing House, 1961
  • Resist or join in. Wayward views and very personal memories , VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-87975-438-1

literature

  • Karl Ditt : Social Democrats in the Resistance. Hamburg in the initial phase of the Third Reich. VSA, Hamburg 1984.
  • Hellmut Kalbitzer: Resist and help shape. A lateral thinker remembers. Edited by Christiane Rix and Thomas John. Hamburg 1997.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 402.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gravestone image at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kalbitzer, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB, MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2006
Place of death Hamburg , Germany