Kurt Partzsch

Kurt Partzsch (born July 26, 1910 in Dresden ; † August 5, 1996 in Hann. Münden ) was a German engineer and politician ( SPD ). From 1961 to 1974 he was Minister of Social Affairs and from 1970 to 1974 Deputy Prime Minister of Lower Saxony .

Life

Kurt Partzsch was born as the son of the trade unionist and social democrat Richard Partzsch . After attending primary school in Köslin and secondary school in Hanover , he first completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. He then attended the Higher Technical State College for Civil Engineering in Hildesheim , graduating as a civil engineer. From 1934 to 1945 he worked as a structural engineer in the field of geophysics for petroleum research in Germany and Norway . Since 1946 he worked as a civil engineer for the building authority of the city of Hanover.

Partzsch joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in 1925 and joined the SPD a short time later. After the Second World War he participated in the rebuilding of the party in Hanover-Linden . In July 1946 he was elected deputy chairman of the SPD local association in Hanover. Shortly afterwards he was elected to the board of directors of the SPD district of Hanover, where he was deputy chairman from 1954 to 1970. At the same time he was deputy chairman of the state committee of the SPD Lower Saxony .

In 1951 Partzsch was elected as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until 1974. In the state elections in 1951 , 1955 , 1959 , 1963 , 1967 and 1970 he won a direct mandate in his constituency . From May 4, 1959 to December 28, 1961 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and from June 10, 1959 to December 28, 1961, he was chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance.

On December 29, 1961, Partzsch was appointed Minister for Social Affairs of Lower Saxony to the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Georg Diederichs . In this role he was responsible for health, social and construction as well as for the labor sector. His main focus was on the expansion of hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and facilities for the disabled, as well as promoting care for the elderly, occupational health and safety and social housing. After the break of the grand coalition , concluded in 1965 , the subsequent election of Alfred Kubel as Prime Minister and the formation of an SPD sole government , he also took over the office of Deputy Prime Minister on July 8, 1970. In the run-up to the state elections in 1974, Partzsch was defeated by his opponent Bruno Orzykowski , who had won a ballot against Richard Lehners four years earlier, in the internal party listing of the constituency candidate. Partzsch then announced his withdrawal from state politics. After the state elections and the formation of a social-liberal coalition , he left the state government on July 10, 1974 and was replaced as Minister of Social Affairs by Helmut Greulich . Rötger Groß took over the office of Deputy Prime Minister .

In addition to his political activities, Partzsch maintained contacts with trade unions and the associations of the free welfare organization. From 1959 to 1986 he was president of the AWO district of Hanover, from 1971 to 1983 president of the AWO federal association and from 1983 until his death AWO honorary chairman. He was also President of the Workers' Samaritan Association (ASB) from 1962 to 1975 .

Kurt Partzsch was married to Hildegard Kahn (1912–1997) and had two daughters.

Honors

• He received the German Medical Association's Decoration of Honor in 1967
• He was awarded the Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1969.
• He received the International Humanist Award of the IHEU in 1982.
• A former youth hostel in Bückeburg was named after him and now serves as a center for rehabilitative care and support under the name Haus Kurt Partzsch .

See also

• Cabinet Diederichs I - Cabinet Diederichs II - Cabinet Diederichs III - Cabinet Diederichs IV - Cabinet Kubel I

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 285–286.
• Klaus Mlynek : Partzsch, (2) Kurt , In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 280. ( online ) via Google books
• Klaus Mlynek: Partzsch, (2) Kurt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 495f.

Web links

• Kurt Partzsch , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/1975 of January 27, 1975, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Kurt Partzsch in the archive of the social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
• Photo by Kurt Partsch at the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Kassel-Nordhessen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Mlynek: Partzsch ... , In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon (see literature)
2. ^ Lower Saxony State Archives: Online Finding Aids. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 17, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ Website of Haus Kurt Partzsch. Retrieved December 17, 2012 .