Leonhard Horlacher

Leonhard Horlacher (born April 2, 1875 in Reubach , today Rot am See , † July 12, 1955 in Munich ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Horlacher, the son of a master blacksmith, attended elementary school, then learned his father's trade and traveled as a traveling journeyman. In 1896 he joined the Social Democratic Party, two years later the union. In the first decade of the 20th century he worked for the Bavarian State Railroad , where he was last employed as a railroad worker. In 1904 he was a co-founder of the South German Railway Union . From 1910 he was district manager of the Association of German Transport Personnel and the Railway Workers Association for Southern Bavaria, based in Munich. He performed the same function from 1920 for the German Railway Workers' Association (DEV) and from 1925 for the Union of Railway Workers in Germany (EdED). At the same time he was also a poor councilor in Munich for several years.

In 1918 Horlacher became a member of the Provisional National Council, the following year a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , to which he belonged until 1920. In 1927 he became a cooperative councilor and section leader in Munich at the SPD. He also took on a number of other functions for the party, including being a board member of the party in Munich.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 Horlacher was arrested several times. From March 5 to March 31, 1933, under the conditions of the incipient National Socialist persecution, he was a member of the German Reichstag (elected in Düsseldorf-East). For political reasons he became unemployed. He was active in the resistance against the Nazi regime in the context of illegal trade union groups, which consisted primarily of railway workers. Among other things, he was in contact with the well-known resistance activist Hans Jahn . The Gestapo took Horlacher into " protective custody " from July 25 to November 12, 1940 , which he spent in Stadelheim prison. Horlacher was released early from prison for health reasons. Horlacher had to endure another term of imprisonment in connection with the Gewitter campaign in September 1944.

After the end of the Second World War, Horlacher became chairman of the Bavarian State Union of Railways and Post, and from 1947 to 1950 he held this position at the Bavarian railway workers' union . In 1946 he was a member of the advisory state committee, the pre-parliament. From 1947 until his death he was a member of the Bavarian Senate .

literature

• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 146, 232 ff., 243, 336 f., 343 f., 363, 367, 399, 510 f. (Short biography).

Web links

• Leonhard Horlacher in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History