Johann Schmidt (politician)

Johann Schmidt (born March 8, 1870 in Delmenhorst ; † February 8, 1949 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

First standing from the right, Johann Schmidt, SPD parliamentary group in the Oldenburg state parliament

Schmidt was the son of the Delmenhorst shoemaker August Schmidt (1845–1925) and his wife Marie geb. Möhlmann (1847-1916). He attended elementary school in his hometown from 1876 to 1884 and then worked for a local liquor wholesaler. In 1893, after three years of military service , which he served in the mounted artillery in Hanover , he joined the Delmenhorster SPD. For his party he belonged in two phases from 1902 to 1904 and then again from 1911 to 1919 to the Oldenburg state parliament . In the meantime he had started his own business as a wine wholesaler.

From 1899 he also worked as the elected city representative of Delmenhorst, and from 1914 also in the city's inner city magistrate. On June 12, 1931, despite his consistent and exemplary socio-political work, which he carried out together with August Jordan and others, he resigned his mandate, apparently because he no longer felt himself equal to the political upheavals of that time. In the time of the Third Reich Schmidt has been exposed as a Social Democrat diverse interrogations and harassment, but committed nevertheless and despite economic damage by the Nazis , the family emigrated party colleagues.

After the end of World War II, he served as Lord Mayor of Delmenhorst from November 26, 1945 to October 12, 1946 . He was elected to the office by an appointed councilor. In addition, he was from January 1946 until the last session on November 6, 1946 a member of the Appointed Landtag of Oldenburg .

family

Schmidt married Anna Döbeling (* 1869) on July 16, 1892, who died in 1912. He then married Emma Katharina Wohlers (1886–1959) on February 25, 1913. There were four children from these marriages.

literature

• Peter Haupt: Schmidt, Johann Hermann August. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 644 f. ( online ).
• 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. 335.