Karl August Poth

Karl August Poth (born June 16, 1895 in Duderstadt ; † June 29, 1960 in Holzminden ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Live and act

After attending primary school , Poth completed an apprenticeship as a book printer . He went on wandering into Switzerland and to Austria . In the First World War he was a combatant from 1915 to 1918. After the end of the war he worked from 1920 to 1933 in his learned profession at the Oberweser-Volkszeitung . In 1924 he became a member of the district executive committee of the SPD and took over the chairmanship in 1929. He was also chairman of the Association of German Book Printers (local administration Holzminden ) and chairman of the local cartel of the Free Trade Union . After 1933 he was mistreated by the SA and SS ; he was unable to work until 1935. It was only in 1936 that he was able to resume his professional activity; he worked again as a printer in Luckenwalde and Duderstadt . At times Poth also acted as a labor judge. After the end of the Second World War , he returned to Holzminden and was active there for the SPD and for the trade union. He became city councilor for the Holzminden district and also district administrator there.

From 1930 to 1933, Poth was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament . From April 20, 1947 to May 5, 1959 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (1st to 3rd electoral period).

literature

• 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. 295.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Poth's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)