Leopold Rückert
Leopold Ferdinand Robert Rückert (born April 20, 1881 in Karlsruhe ; † November 11, 1942 there ) was a German SPD politician .
Live and act
Leopold Rückert was born in 1881 as the son of a locksmith . After attending primary school (1887 to 1895), he learned his father's trade by completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1895 to 1898. Then Rückert practiced his profession until 1905. From 1905 to 1918 he was the managing director of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in the Karlsruhe district . In 1909 Rückert, who had been a member of the SPD since 1900, took over his first political office when he became a city councilor in Karlsruhe. In 1914 he was delegated to the board of the AOK in Karlsruhe.
After the November Revolution of 1918, Rückert was appointed Minister of Transport in the first post-war Baden government on November 10, 1918 . He then led the Labor Ministry of the State of Baden in the following governments ( Cabinet Geiß II and Cabinet Trunk I ) from April 1919 to January 1921.
In 1919 Rückert was elected both to the Baden National Assembly and as a representative for constituency 33 (Baden) in the all-German constituent national assembly, the so-called Weimar National Assembly.
After the end of his work in the Baden government, Rückert limited himself to his work as a simple member of the Baden state parliament , to which he belonged from 1919 to 1933: in 1928 he took over the chairmanship of the budget committee; in the same year he became second and in 1931 first chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament. In addition, he was again increasingly active in the trade union movement: From 1921 to 1931, he acted as managing director of the Central Association of Employees in Karlsruhe.
In 1931 Rückert was appointed to the State Council. In addition to Emil Maier , he was one of two SPD ministers in the coalition government in Baden at the time . After Maier's death in May 1932, Rückert also took over the interim management of the Baden Ministry of the Interior. In November 1932 he resigned from this office when the SPD decided to withdraw from the Baden government.
After coming to power of the Nazis in the spring of 1933, Rückert was arrested and for a few months as a protection prisoner held in prison in the Karlsruhe Riefstahlstraße. After his release on June 26th, Rückert withdrew into private life with his wife Else: he managed to get by as an insurance agent until his death in 1942. He died of a heart attack allegedly after an interrogation by the Gestapo .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Koch: The focus is on people. Speeches by Karlsruhe SPD MPs. 2001, p. 55.
literature
- Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold Rückert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leopold Rückert in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Leopold Rückert in the files of the Reich Chancellery
- Speeches by Leopold Rückert in the Baden State Parliament in the digital collections of the Baden State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rückert, Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rückert, Leopold Ferdinand Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1942 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |