Julius Bredenbeck

Julius Bredenbeck (born July 13, 1907 in Kiel ; † October 13, 1990 ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After attending primary school, Bredenbeck completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator. He continued his education through courses at the adult education center and the technical evening school and thus became director of the mining engineering school in Eisleben in 1946 through stations as operations manager and senior engineer .

Since 1923 he was a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . After initially working in Magdeburg , he temporarily worked in the Sudetenland , from which he was expelled in 1945. After the unions were re-established in 1945, he was a member of IG Metall . In 1948 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation and served part of the sentence in the prisons in Bautzen , Waldheim and Torgau . He was released in 1954 and was deported to West Germany, where he returned to his native Kiel . There he worked full-time for IG Metall and was also chairman of the supervisory boardNon-profit Heimstättengenossenschaft Kiel-Ost , which he also represented at the Association of North German Housing Companies .

Political party

Bredenbeck has been involved in the socialist youth movement since 1922. In 1927 he also joined the SPD, in which he saw himself as a Lassallean .

MP

Bredenbeck was a member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein from 1958 to April 30, 1962 . He represented the constituency of Kiel -Ost in parliament. Bredenbeck was deputy chairman of the investigation committee “ Prof. Heyde / Dr. Sawade II ”. The state parliament elected him as a deputy member of the ninth federal assembly , which on May 23, 1989 re-elected Richard von Weizsäcker as federal president .

Public offices

In 1945 Bredenbeck was appointed mayor of Hirschfeld (Saxony) for a few months by the Soviet occupying power .

Web links

• Julius Bredenbeck in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
• Interviews with Julius Bredenbeck 1986 and 1989 [1]
• SPD history workshop: " Julius Bredenbeck "