Hermann Langlotz

Hermann Langlotz (born November 19, 1895 in Speyer ; † June 10, 1964 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

From 1909 Langlotz did an apprenticeship at the General Local Health Insurance Fund Speyer. From 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . Between 1926 and 1933 he was managing director of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Kaiserslautern, after the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was sacked in 1933 and imprisoned. After that he was unemployed or freelance agent from 1933 to 1938. Between 1938 and 1943 he worked as a payroll clerk at a construction company on Westwall, in Naumburg, Cologne and Neustadt ad Weinstrasse. From 1943 to 1945 he worked for the Todt Organization in Paris as a chief troop leader in the restaurant business and in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Americans . In 1945 he became acting head of the general local health insurance fund in Germersheim and from 1948 to 1960 director of the state insurance institute Rhineland-Palatinate . The construction of the 53-meter-high administration building also fell during his term of office: today's skyscraper for Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz in Speyer.

politics

In 1917 he became a member of the SPD, having already become a union member in 1912. In 1945 he became a member of the SPD party executive committee of the Palatinate. From 1946 he was mayor of Speyer . In 1946 he was also a member of the advisory state assembly . On March 14, 1946, the motto of the ZSK Neustadt was: Leave in service. In 1949 he was the founder of a sanatorium for those returning from the war in the Odenwald.

literature

• The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . 1st edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04751-1 , p. 406-407 .

Web links

• Entry on Hermann Langlotz in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database