Hubert Schlebusch

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Hubert Schlebusch

Hubert Schlebusch (born June 28, 1893 in Munich-Gladbach ; † October 20, 1955 in Braunschweig ) was a German teacher, politician of the SPD , member of the Reichstag , in 1945/46 the first post-war Prime Minister of Braunschweig and from 1946 to 1955 first President of the Braunschweig administrative district.

Early years

Schlebusch first attended elementary school in Mönchengladbach and then the teachers' college in Odenkirchen . He then worked as a teacher in Viersen from 1913 . He took part in the First World War as a soldier for four years and worked again as a teacher in Gladbach-Rheydt after the war . He graduated as a career counselor.

SPD politician

In 1919 he joined the SPD. Just one year later, Schlebusch was elected to the city parliament and chairman of his party. As a member of the Düsseldorf-West constituency , he entered the Reichstag. In 1923 he took an active part in the resistance against the French in the occupied Rhineland.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the election of March 5, 1933 , Schlebusch was a member of the Reichstag in the eighth and thus last legislative period of the Weimar Republic . In this capacity, Schlebusch votes against the Enabling Act , which resulted in his dismissal from civil service and two short-term imprisonments. He was dismissed from teaching and finally expelled from his home district on July 16, 1933.

Work in Braunschweig

Schlebusch then moved to Braunschweig, where he worked from 1934 to 1945 for the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Agency in Zurich. In addition, he tried to rally the splintered Braunschweig SPD members around himself, for which he was taken into protective custody several times from 1933 to 1935 , and which led to further arrests in 1938 and 1939. From August 21 to November 21, 1935 Schlebusch was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp .

First post-war Prime Minister of the State of Braunschweig

After Braunschweig on April 12, 1945 been occupied by US troops and the reigning NSDAP -Ministerpräsident Dietrich Klagges was detained on April 13, the US military administration continued initially Gerhard Marquordt (DVP), former Prime Minister Braunschweigische 1924-1927 , as Klagge's successor. Marquordt was arrested just eight days later. The British then appointed Hubert Schlebusch from April 24, 1945 to May 1946 as the first post-war Prime Minister of the State of Braunschweig and appointed him State Director on May 6, 1945. In the autumn of the same year he negotiated the contract on the state government for imperial tasks in Lower Saxony with the state of Oldenburg and the administrative district of Hanover - the contract was however rejected by the British military administration. In January 1946, Schlebusch's term of office as Prime Minister ended and Alfred Kubel became his successor. Overall, he was from February 21, 1946 to November 21, 1946 a member of the appointed Braunschweig Landtag .

President of the Braunschweig administrative district

After the fall of the old state of Braunschweig through the establishment of the state of Lower Saxony , Schlebusch was appointed the first President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig in November 1946 - an office that gave him the opportunity to expressly represent the interests of the old state in the new state and which he up to his death in 1955. In the office of administrative president he was succeeded on January 1, 1956 by Friedrich August Knost and in 1964 by Willi Thiele , before it came to an end at the end of 1977 as part of the Lower Saxony district reform.

In addition, Schlebusch was chairman of the supervisory board of Braunschweig-GmbH, member of the supervisory board of Preussische Elektrizitäts AG and Baustoffwerke Bodenwerder GmbH. At the Technical University of Braunschweig he was chairman of the board of trustees of the administration and business academy .

Hubert Schlebusch was married.

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 .
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Scheel (eds.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 329.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Joachim Krause: Braunschweig between war and peace. The events before and after the capitulation of the city on April 12, 1945 , Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-926701-22-6 , pp. 94-98.

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personal data
SURNAME Schlebusch, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich-Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1955
Place of death Braunschweig