Karl Olfers

Olfers Eck in Delftstrasse Cuxhaven

Karl Olfers (born April 14, 1888 in Dorum , † April 22, 1968 in Cuxhaven ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was Lord Mayor of Cuxhaven from 1946 to 1952 and from 1956 to 1966 and President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament from 1946 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1963 .

biography

education and profession

Olfers attended elementary school and advanced training schools. Then he learned carpentry. From 1909 to 1911 he was a soldier, he took part in the First World War.

From 1925 to 1933 he was managing director of Bauhütte Cuxhaven , the housing construction company founded in 1922 by the labor movement. The residential buildings de Bauhütte from the interwar period with the clinker facades shape the cityscape of Cuxhaven. The "Olfer stone currency" was known during the inflation period , when bricks were used as emergency money in trade.
From 1933 to 1944 he worked as an insurance agent , after he was removed from office under the Nazi regime and repeatedly arrested for resistance. In 1944 he was called up for military service.

politics

Olfers joined a trade union in 1907 and the SPD in 1912. From 1919 he became a city representative, member of the magistrate and from 1924 second mayor of Cuxhaven, as a representative of Max Bleicken ( DDP ). In 1933 he was a member of the state committee, the supervisory board of the state fishing company and other public companies, before he was removed from office by the Nazi regime and repeatedly arrested for resistance.

From 1919 to 1933 Olfers was a member of the Hamburg parliament for the SPD ; From 1394 to 1937, Cuxhaven was part of Hamburg's national territory.

After 1945 he participated in the reconstruction of the SPD in Cuxhaven and the Weser region. In addition, he became city councilor in 1945 and lord mayor of Cuxhaven in 1946, which he remained until 1952. From 1956 to 1966 he was again Lord Mayor of Cuxhaven.

In 1946 he was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament, whose president he was from 1946 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1963.

Honors

• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1954)
• Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
• Appointment as honorary citizen of Cuxhaven (1966)
• Karl-Olfers-Platz in Cuxhaven was named after him.
• The Olfers-Eck apartment building in Cuxhaven was named in 1964.
• The memorial in the Brockeswalde cemetery in Cuxhaven

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, pp. 278–279.
• Peter Bussler: Historical city lexicon for Cuxhaven . Ed .: Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadtwiki Cuxhaven: Olfers, Karl .