Karl Petersson

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Karl Heinrich Albert Petersson (born December 5, 1879 in Hamburg , † June 15, 1950 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Karl Petersson was the son of a machinist. After completing primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and plumber . He then worked as a mechanical engineer in Hamburg until 1906. In 1904 he married Hulda, b. Stahlke (* 1876), with whom he had two children and looked after a foster child. From January 1907 to January 1920 he worked as an editor at the Hamburger Echo .

Petersson joined the SPD in 1904. He had been a member of the magistrate since November 1919 and full-time mayor of the city ​​of Goldberg since February 1920 . In 1920 he was elected to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state parliament, to which he was a member until 1921. From January 19 to April 20, 1921, he was Minister of State for Finance in the government of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin led by Prime Minister Johannes Stelling . Instead of the elected Karl Heinrich Evers , he also took over the provisional management of the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests.

In April 1921, Petersson was accused in the media of deliberately falsely accusing his predecessor Fritz Dettmann of tax fraud during the election campaign. As a result, he was no longer acceptable to the SPD and was forced to resign a few days after his second election as minister. He was succeeded by Julius Asch .

Petersson took over the office of mayor of Lehe from April 1921 . After the city merged with Geestemünde to Wesermünde in 1924 , he became its mayor and head of the welfare office. In November 1930 he resigned from office under pressure from the SPD to forestall possible disciplinary proceedings. He also resigned from the party the following month. The reason was Petersson's financial situation. He had gone into heavy debt buying a villa with expensive fittings and taken out a number of personal loans with no chance of repayment. In 1931 he was sentenced to nine months in prison for fraud by the Wesermünde lay judge and, on appeal, to twelve months in prison by the large criminal chamber of the Verden regional court .

After his release from prison in August 1932, Petersson first lived in Neuenkirchen . In 1934 his pension was canceled according to § 4 BGB, half of which he had already waived when he resigned. At first he lived for a few months on welfare , then he worked in Bremen at Arbeitsstätten GmbH and from 1939 as a travel agent for the Kohrs company. From 1940 to 1944 he worked as an independent sales representative. From 1945 he ran an export and mail order business in Bremen. There he died at the age of 70 after an accident.

See also

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden: The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , p. 53.
  • Petersson, Karl In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 230-231.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petersson, Karl In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 230.
  2. ^ A b Petersson, Karl In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Petersson, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersson, Karl Heinrich Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1950
Place of death Bremen