Karl Appelbaum
Karl Appelbaum (born December 27, 1879 in Hamburg , † February 2, 1961 there ) was a German SPD politician .
Life and politics
Karl Appelbaum was a trained office assistant and worked from 1895 to 1933 in the administrative service at the secondary school authority and the state school authority in Hamburg. From 1908 to 1911 he was the office manager of the Hamburg Colonial Institute and since 1921 he was a member of the government in the scientific institutions section.
He was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1919 to 1933. There he was and from 1919 to 1933 a member and since 1920 chairman of the State Budget Committee. He was also a member of the Hamburg Citizens Committee from 1919 to 1931 .
After the takeover of the Nazis in 1933, he lost as the other social democratic politicians from his position, and later his job. In addition, he was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp from August 1944 to October 1944 during the Nazi era .
After the end of the war, from May 1945 to 1947, he was senior senate councilor at the state school and university authorities in Hamburg. He then retired.
Web links
- Karl Appelbaum's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory of the Hamburg citizenship 1859 to 1959 - short biographies. Compiled and edited by Franz Th. Mönckeberg. Hardcover typewriter manuscript, No. 40
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appelbaum, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Appelbaum, Carl Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1961 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |