Kurt Mayer (politician)

Kurt Mayer (born February 17, 1879 in Katowice ; † September 13, 1958 in the Federal Republic of Germany) was a politician of the German minority in the Second Polish Republic ( DP ) and a former member of the Silesian Parliament and the Polish Senate .

Kurt Mayer was the son of an upper climber. He attended elementary schools in Congress Poland and at the age of 14 did an apprenticeship as a locksmith / iron lathe operator . From 1897 Kurt Mayer worked as a locksmith on tour in machine factories in Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria. In 1901 he returned to Upper Silesia. From 1914 to 1918 he did military service as a soldier in the First World War .

Since his youth, Kurt Mayer was an agitator of the Hirsch-Duncker trade union of metal workers . From 1902 to 1919 he was the leader of a group at the Katharina hut in Königshütte, and then full-time district manager in Upper Silesia. And from 1922 top function of the German Christian trade unions .

Kurt Mayer was chairman of the German parliamentary group of the city council of Königshütte and deputy chairman of the city council. During the plebiscite he was active on the German side. In 1922 he became district chairman of the DP in Königshütte and from 1922 to 1930 he was a member of the 1st Silesian Sejm for his party. In parliament he was deputy parliamentary group leader of the German club .

From 1922 to 1928 Kurt Mayer was a member of the Polish Senate. From January 26, 1925 he was one of the five aldermen of the Volksbund der Deutschen. Since May 10, 1925, as a parliamentarian, he was a member of the DP party executive committee. He was head of the office of the Sejm delegates in Königshütte.

In 1929 he moved to the German part of Silesia, to Oels . After the Second World War and the expulsion, he worked in the Oberschlesier Landsmannschaft .

literature

• Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Manual of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 2, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , pp. 768-769 .