Karl Prichert

Karl Priefert (* 2. January 1879 in Berlin , † 24. May 1961 ibid ) was a German local politicians and trade unionists . From 1919 to 1933 he was a member of the provincial parliament of Brandenburg for the SPD and from 1924 to 1933 a member of the Prussian State Council .

Life

Prichert was born the son of the sculptor Hermann Pruellen. His mother Marie, née Theuerkauff, was a housewife . He attended primary school in Berlin from 1885 to 1893 and learned the trade of metal pusher , which he practiced until 1907. But he also took advantage of numerous further training offers, including the advanced training school from 1893 to 1897, the workers' training school from 1902 to 1906, a trade union school from 1906 and later the Humboldt Academy .

In 1902, at the age of 23, Preuert became a member of the SPD and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). Just three years later, until 1911, he was a branch representative in the Berlin local administration of the DMV. From 1907 he was also employed by the mechanics' health insurance company. In 1911 the general assembly of the DMV local administration in Rathenow elected him as their representative and union secretary. Until 1920 it was always confirmed by large majorities in elections. During the First World War , Prerty was a medic from 1915 to 1918 .

In 1920 he was elected to the paid councilor of Rathenow. Since then his work has shifted from trade union to local politics. As city ​​councilor of Rathenow, he became a member of the Brandenburg provincial parliament from 1919, where he temporarily held the office of chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. From May 1921 to May 1924 he was a deputy member of the Prussian State Council, of which he was a member from May 1924 to April 1933. He was also chairman of the SPD electoral association of Rathenow, a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , on the supervisory board of the Brandenburg Savings Banks and Giro Association and later in the Brandenburgische Provinzialbank and Girozentrale as well as the district council and district committee Westhavelland. In addition, contact with the DMV was maintained. This honored him in 1927 for 25 years of membership and union involvement.

Prellt, who was elected a paid town councilor of Rathenow for a further twelve years in 1931, lost this office when the National Socialists came to power . In June 1933 he was arrested along with many other trade unionists and social-democratic party officials and from June 27 to July 19, 1933 Oranienburg concentration camp in protective custody taken. After his release he moved to Berlin and opened a textile goods store with his wife in Berlin-Steglitz . Their business served as a meeting point for a group of like-minded opponents of National Socialism. Prichert served his customers with goods from Jewish manufacturers and wholesalers, but had to give up his business as a result of the Second World War . Priefert was 1,943 conscripted and assigned by the employment office the Steglitz district offices. At the age of 65 in January 1944, he and his wife moved to Retzow near Rathenow in May 1944 , where he worked in agriculture. After the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, Prerty was arrested for the second time in the course of the grating action at the end of July 1944 and remained in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until September 9, 1944 .

After Germany's unconditional surrender , the President of the Brandenburg Provincial Administration, Karl Steinhoff , commissioned him to rebuild the insurance industry in the Brandenburg Province and the State of Brandenburg . On September 1, 1945, he became a member of the board of the newly founded insurance company, a position he gave up at the end of February 1948 for reasons of age. Prellt joined the Free German Trade Union Federation and the SPD in 1945 . At the Unification Party Congress , the forced unification of the SPD and KPD , Prerty became a member of the SED , but according to his own account he was inevitably reported. In 1947 he resigned from the SED and was again a member of the SPD in West Berlin and of the German Federation of Trade Unions . Prellt now moved to the Nikolassee district . He applied for recognition as a politically persecuted person, which was initially rejected on the grounds that imprisonment of three and a half months was not sufficient for recognition. Only in mid-January 1954, after his objection, was the application granted.

Karl Prichert died on May 24, 1961 at the age of 82 in Berlin. He was married to Klara Stahlberg since 1906. His wife also became a member of the SPD in 1908. Their son Erwin, born in 1906, studied law. He fell in World War II. Daughter Margot was born in 1912.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , pages 124-125.

Web links

• Siegfried Mielke : Prichert, Karl. in the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation