Konrad Potthast

Konrad Potthast (born November 15, 1881 in Bösingfeld , † September 27, 1967 in Hiddesen ) was a German politician ( DDP , SPD ).

Life

Potthast attended elementary school and then, like his father, worked as a brickworker. He was of Protestant denomination and married. At least 1921 to 1925 he was managing director in Ehrentrup, in 1929 he was union secretary and in 1933 a representative in Hiddesen.

In 1919 he was a member of the German Democratic Party. In the state elections in Lippe in 1921 , he ran for last place (number 15) on the "Biesemeier-Held trade union list". Gustav Biesemeier was the single candidate on the list who was elected. He also ran for last place on the Biesemeier list in the state elections in Lippe in 1925 . After the election, Biesemeier moved up to the state presidium. Even if Potthast was only at number 16 on the list, he moved up for Biesemeier in the Lippe state parliament on October 1, 1925 , after Biesemeier was elected to the state presidium. On September 3, 1926, he dissolved his one-man faction and joined the SPD faction. In the state election in Lippe in 1929 , he ran for 10th place on the SPD list. On October 25, 1925, he succeeded Heinrich Drake , who had been elected to the state presidium, in the state parliament. At the end of the electoral term, he left the state parliament because his 13th place on the SPD state parliament list in the state elections in Lippe in 1933 was not enough for a mandate.

literature

• Biography of Konrad Potthast . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)
• Hans Hüls: Voters and voting behavior in the state of Lippe in the Weimar Republic, 1974, pp. 127, 132.136 ff., 142, 150 ff.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 230.