Hermann Trittelvitz

Hermann Trittelvitz

Hermann Trittelvitz (center) in March 1959

Hermann Trittelvitz (born April 10, 1909 in Fenne / Saar , † January 11, 1970 in Saarbrücken ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

Trittelvitz studied economics at the universities in Heidelberg and Hamburg and after his exams worked in the metal industry, chemical and metal wholesaling from 1934 to 1944. In 1931 he became a member of the SPD and from 1932 to 1933 was chairman of the socialist student body and member of the AStA in Heidelberg . From 1945 to 1947 he was the mayor of Spiesen (Saar), from 1947 to 1952 he was district administrator in Homburg . He was a co-founder of the SPD on the Saar and was removed from Saarland in 1952 because of cooperation with the German opposition and German partiesDismissed services and expelled from the country. In 1953, as a member of the government, he was responsible for the state port authority in Ludwigshafen / Rhine. Back in Saarland, he worked for the Federal Employment Agency (BA). When the organization of the BA was extended to Saarland at the end of 1956, he became head of the employment office in Saarbrücken.

In addition to his work as a member of the Saarland state parliament from 1960, Trittelvitz was a member of the administrative board of the Saarland broadcasting company as well as the supervisory board of the Völklinger Hütte and lay president of the men's work of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

MP

Trittelvitz was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to September 12, 1956 and was also a delegate of the Consultative Assembly ( Council of Europe ). He was elected to the Saarland state parliament on December 4, 1960 and June 27, 1965 . From December 19, 1958 to January 17, 1961 he was a full member of the Federal Council.

Public offices

From February 14, 1958 to January 17, 1961, Trittelvitz was Saarland's Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the grand coalition of Prime Ministers Egon Reinert and Franz Josef Röder and a member of the Federal Council .

Honors

• 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 884.

Web links

• Hermann Trittelvitz on saarland-biografien.de