Karl Ebert (politician, 1899)

Karl Ebert (born April 29, 1899 in Bremen , † September 21, 1975 in Heidelberg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Karl Ebert was born as the fourth of five children of the saddler and later Social Democratic Reich President Friedrich Ebert and his wife Louise Ebert . His older brother was the later GDR politician Friedrich Ebert junior and his two other brothers died in the First World War. After attending elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as an optician from 1913 to 1917. He then worked in the profession he had learned and passed the examination as a master optician in 1921. In 1917 he joined the SPD. After the National Socialists came to power , he was dismissed from his position for political reasons and imprisoned several times. He spent the following years in unemployment. Later he took part as a soldier in World War II , in which he was wounded.

After the end of the war, Ebert entered the service of the city ​​of Heidelberg as a bailiff. He became head of the occupation office in December 1945, then switched to the road traffic office and took over the management there in November 1946. From September 1949 he was head of the registration and passport office, from June 1956 head of the lending office. In 1962 he was appointed community judge. In 1967 he retired.

For the SPD, Ebert was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden from 1946 to 1952, and from 1952 to 1964 a member of the state constitutional assembly (1952–53) and a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg (1953–1964).

Honors

• Citizen Medal of the City of Heidelberg, 1973

literature

• Landtag of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): MdL, The Members of the Landtag in Baden-Württemberg 1946–1978 , Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 , p. 110.

Web links

• Photo by Karl Ebert at LEO Baden-Württemberg