Konrad Mälzig

Konrad Mälzig (born May 26, 1900 in Bernstadt an der Weide , Lower Silesia ; † November 2, 1981 in Goslar ) was a German economist , entrepreneur and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

Mälzig was born the son of a building contractor. After attending schools in Wroclaw and Opole and graduating from high school, he did military service in World War I in 1918 . He studied from 1919 to 1923 mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Wroclaw , received his doctorate in 1923 for Dr. rer. pole. and one year later took up a job in the Hamburg wholesaling and overseas trade. He then returned to Silesia and worked in the Upper Silesian iron and steel industry from 1925 . From 1927 to 1937 he was director of the United Upper Silesian Hüttenwerke in Gleiwitz and from 1938 to 1945 general director of the Portland Cement and Lime Works "Stadt Oppeln" AG. He was also a member of various supervisory boards and president of the Opole Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

After the Second World War , Mälzig moved to West Germany as a displaced person and settled in the Harz Mountains . In 1945 he founded Norddeutsche Baustoff GmbH in Lautenthal , and in 1949 he became managing director of Kalkwerk Langelsheim GmbH.

politics

Mälzig joined the NSDAP in 1932 .

After the war, Mälzig became a member of the FDP in 1948 and a member of the district assembly of the Zellerfeld district in 1952 . In September 1955 he was elected regional chairman of the FDP Lower Saxony . His successor in this office was Carlo Graaff since 1956 .

Mälzig was appointed on May 26, 1955 as Minister for Development in the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Heinrich Hellwege . After the FDP had accepted six members of the German Reich Party as guests in its parliamentary group, Hellwege terminated the government coalition on November 6, 1957, whereupon Mälzig resigned from the government and the building ministry was dissolved. In the 1961 federal election he was elected to the German Bundestag , to which he belonged until 1965.

Honors

Lower Saxony Order of Merit , 1964

literature

Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv , 29/1958 of July 7, 1958.
KGParl Online Publications MdB - Die Volksvertretung 1946−1972 , letter M

Individual evidence

↑ The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony (PDF; 92 kB), Landtag printed matter 16/4667, p. 3.

Web links

Literature by and about Konrad Mälzig in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Mälzig, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist, entrepreneur and politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bernstadt an der Weide , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	November 2nd 1981
Place of death	Goslar

[1] The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony (PDF; 92 kB), Landtag printed matter 16/4667, p. 3.