Lorenz Blank
Lorenz Blank (born May 2, 1862 in Bernterode , Heiligenstadt district , † November 26, 1922 in Hildesheim ) was a German, Roman Catholic workers secretary and politician ( center ). He was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament .
Life
Lorenz Blank worked in mines and factories after primary school. He then made a mason teacher and earned his living as a journeyman mason until 1904. He was the head of the Hildesheim local health insurance fund and had been involved in the Catholic labor movement and the Christian trade union since 1895 . From October 1905 Blank was a full-time workers secretary for the Hildesheim Christian trade union federation . In 1920 he was a member of the Hildesheim district council of the Center Party and the Windthorst League. Since 1911, the Christian trade unionist acted as an unpaid senator for the city of Hildesheim. Blank was a member of the Weimar National Assembly for the Center Party from 1919 to 1920 on and from 1921 on the Hanover provincial parliament.
literature
- Bernd Haunfelder : Member of the Reichstag of the German Center Party 1871–1933. Biographical handbook and historical photographs (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 297.
- Helmut Lensing: The Center Party in the Province of Hanover during the Weimar Republic - Part 1, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte 25, Haselünne 2018, 57–221, pp. 123, 124, 134, 154, 173 , 174, 185.
- Helmut Lensing: The Center Party in the Province of Hanover during the Weimar Republic - Part 2, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte 26, Haselünne 2019, 44–112, p. 94.
- Joachim Raffert: MdR - in the Reichstag for and from Hildesheim. From 1867 to 1933: 22 men and one woman. Lax, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-8269-6309-1 , pp. 159-160.
- Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 47.
Web links
- Lorenz Blank in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blank, Lorenz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernterode , district of Heiligenstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1922 |
| Place of death | Hildesheim |