Karl Simon (politician, 1885)

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Karl Simon

Karl Simon (born March 25, 1885 in Zweibrücken , † March 16, 1961 in Iserlohn ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school and secondary school , Simon joined the Bavarian 1st Uhlan Regiment in 1905 , with which he took part in the First World War from August 1914 to November 1918 . In February 1920 he retired from the army as a lieutenant . He then earned his living as a bank clerk and as a commercial clerk.

Simon joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5917) in 1920 and was involved in building up the party organization in the Palatinate until 1923 . In 1922 he was a co-founder of the NSDAP local group in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . During the passive resistance against the occupation of the Ruhr , Simon was arrested by the French occupation forces in March 1923 and expelled from the Palatinate two months later. Simon moved to Central Germany, where he was district leader of the party between June and November 1923. Later he was the founder of the local NSDAP group in Leuna , district leader of the party for Merseburg , district economics officer and member of the district leadership as well as temporarily deputy district leader for Halle-Merseburg. In 1929 he worked for several National Socialist newspapers under the pseudonym "Spektator".

From 1932 to 1933 Simon was a member of the Prussian state parliament . From November 12, 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime, Simon was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag as a representative of constituency 11 (Merseburg). From October 1933 Simon was Gauarbeitsführer for Halle-Merseburg. In April 1945 he was promoted to senior general labor leader in the Reich Labor Service .

In January 1958, Simon married in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 620 f .
  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 , p. 447 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Simon, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1961
Place of death Iserlohn