Karl Brettar

Karl Brettar (born July 14, 1889 in Kleinblittersdorf ; † August 2, 1975 ) was a Saarland or German politician of the SPD and the SPS .

Professional biography

Brettar completed his apprenticeship as a locksmith at a railway company and practiced the profession he had learned in Saarbrücken and Diedenhofen (today Thionville ). In 1924 he was elected to the advisory board of the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate and resigned from his previous position. In 1929 he changed jobs and now worked as a warehouse manager for the United Saar Electricity Works . At the beginning of 1936, after the Saar Statute was rejected, Brettar was fired. On July 1, 1936, he began his service with the Karlsruher Lebensversicherung , which at that time set up an organization in the Saar region under the direction of the later state parliament president and mayor of Saarbrücken Peter Zimmer . In 1939 he became their authorized representative for Hesse and Saarland, and his place of employment was now Frankfurt am Main . In May 1946 he returned home after he was appointed head of the housing department of the city of Saarbrücken, later he was appointed city administrator. In 1954 he retired.

Political career

In February 1919, Brettar was the founding chairman of the local SPD association in Kleinblittersdorf, and later the Social Democratic Party of the Saar region split off from it. From 1924 to 1928 he was a member of the Landesrat des Saargebiets in his second electoral term, during which time he was appointed a delegate to the League of Nations . In 1935 he got involved in the election campaign for the Saar referendum, he advocated the (ultimately rejected) status quo. After the war he participated in the re-establishment of the SPD in Hesse in 1945 , he was a speaker and delegate at the first district party conference. After returning to Saarland, he switched to the SPS. In 1946 he was the top candidate for the municipal council election in Kleinblittersdorf, in the council he acted as parliamentary group leader and opposition leader at the same time. On October 5, 1947 , Brettar was elected to the Saarland state parliament, to which he belonged for an electoral term until 1952. In February 1950 he was elected mayor of Kleinblittersdorf, a position he held until June 1956.

In 1963, Karl Brettar began to write down his memoirs, presumably with the help of his son. His grandson Klaus Brettar and the Saarland Democracy Foundation published these minutes in 2017.

literature

• Klaus Brettar (editor): Dialog 26: Karl Brettar - An eventful life , Saarbrücken 2017 ( PDF )

Web links

• Short biography about Karl Brettar