Karl Klages (politician, 1904)

Karl Klages (born December 26, 1904 in Eschershausen , † September 12, 1967 in Bad Gandersheim ) was a German educator and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Karl Klages was born the son of a carpenter and forest worker. After attending school, he graduated from the teacher training college in Wolfenbüttel in 1919 . He worked as a teacher in Braunschweig and Offleben from 1925 , but was dismissed in 1931 for political reasons. In the year of the " seizure of power " (1933) he practiced his teaching profession in Berlin , but was again dismissed for political reasons. After a period of unemployment, he did Reich labor service and took part in World War II as a soldier . Most recently he was taken prisoner by the English, from which he was released in 1945. In autumn 1945 he took up a position as rector and headmaster in Langelsheim .

Klages joined the SPD and had been a member of the Langelsheim community council since 1948. He was first mayor of Langelsheim and from 1957 he was the district administrator of the Gandersheim district , where he was a member of the district council. In January 1962 he became senior district director.

Klages ran unsuccessfully in the federal elections in 1953 and 1957 . In the state elections in April 1959 , he was elected as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until his resignation on June 4, 1962.

Honors

A school and a street in Langelsheim bear his name.

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. 197.
• Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 534.
• Klages, Karl . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 617 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).