Karl Broschko

Karl Erich Broschko (born April 26, 1900 in Lipowen , Lötzen district , † August 19, 1972 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1926 to 1931 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament .

Life

Broschko was the son of a maid. After attending elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as an office assistant at the Landkrankenkasse in Plön . In 1918 he briefly took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1919 to 1921 he was first secretary, then from 1921 to 1931 senior secretary and manager of the rural health insurance fund in Eutin in the Lübeck area . From January 1932 to May 1933 he was secretary and deputy managing director of the North Regional Association of the Reich Association of Local Health Insurance Funds in Hamburg.

Broschko joined the SPD in 1918, for which he succeeded on February 16, 1926 as a substitute for the retired MP Heinrich Fick in the Oldenburg state parliament. He was a member of the Petitions Committee until the state election in 1928, when he was again elected to parliament. From June 1928 he was a member of the administrative committee and from February 1930 secretary of the state parliament. He was also a member of the state committee for the Lübeck part of the state until 1931. He was also a member of the Plön City Council.

The SPD member of the state parliament Friedrich Frerichs reported in a session of the state parliament at the end of October 1931 that Broschko had been attacked and knocked down by SA members on the street in Eutin . In the following years, during the Nazi era , Broschko was arrested and interned several times. In November 1933 he had to spend fourteen days in Ahrensbök concentration camp , in March 1935 he was imprisoned for nine days on "suspicion of Marxist activity" and immediately afterwards in solitary confinement for several weeks in Fuhlsbüttel because of a trial for "high treason". From October 1933 to 1935, Broschko worked as a managing director at the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Hamburg. From 1939 to 1941 and again from 1944, he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in August of that year.

Karl Broschko was married twice. His first marriage was in 1919, the second in 1946.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 64.

Web links

• Biography of Karl Broschko . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)