Lothar Urbanczyk

Lothar Urbanczyk (born September 3, 1903 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia , † April 30, 1986 in Einbeck ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Lothar Urbanczyk was born as the son of the lawyer and notary Hans Urbanczyk in Beuthen ( Province of Silesia ). After a few weeks, the parents and his brother Günther moved to Einbeck ( Hanover province ), where the father opened a law firm. He attended school in Einbeck, then the Realgymnasium in Rostock and the Copenhagen St-Andreas College of the Society of Jesus and he earned the Abitur. In 1918 his mother died. After leaving school, he initially worked in the banking industry and then studied law and political science at the universities in Berlin and Göttingen and did preparatory service . In 1927 he passed his first state examination in law and in 1933 the second state examination. However, he was subsequently dismissed from civil service for political reasons during the National Socialist era . One reason was the discrimination in the Nazi state, as he was prevented from continuing his career as a Jewish mixed race . As a result, in 1935, as a businessman, he founded a small chemical company that produced cleaning and polishing agents. The company was entered in the commercial register of the Einbeck local court on May 31, 1936 as Nira-Chemie Lothar Urbanczyk GmbH . From 1938 he and his brother were listed in the Jewish files . In 1944 they were arrested by the Gestapo . On October 17, 1944, they had to meet at a collection point in Kreiensen and were housed in the Lenn camp near Lenne-Vorwohle near Reichsstrasse 64. He worked as a forced laborer for the construction company Ernst Kohlrautz KG for the Vorwohle construction site . Due to the hard work and malnutrition, he was very physically exhausted and could not eat any more. He was taken to Einbeck Hospital and did not return to the labor camp after he was released. Apparently there was no release notice to the labor camp. He hid with his father in Einbeck until the end of the war. After the end of the Second World War , he worked as a notary and lawyer in Einbeck and in 1945 was commissioned by the British military government to look after the Eastern workers and the displaced persons on site. Urbanczyk later became President of the Celle Chamber of Notaries and a member of the Presidential Board of the Federal Chamber of Notaries .

Political career

Urbanczyk was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1945 he became a member of the district advisory council and was a member of the district council in the Einbeck district from February 25, 1946 to September 30, 1968 . From 1948 to 1952 he was district administrator for the district of Einbeck.

From May 6, 1955 to June 20, 1970 he represented the Einbeck state electoral district (constituency 25) for the SPD and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (3rd to 6th electoral period). He took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs from August 31, 1955 to May 5, 1963, and from November 26, 1965 to June 20, 1970, the chairmanship of a subcommittee of the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on the subject of the penal system. He was a member of the city council of Einbeck from 1968 to 1972.

Awards

For his work he was honored in 1965 with the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1962 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .

literature

• Lothar Urbanczyk: Is voluntary sterilization a criminal offense? : Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1964, page 425 ff.
• 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, p. 386.

Web links

• Der Spiegel from October 1, 1958 about Urbanczyk as a member of the state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Bertram: Lost but not forgotten: Jewish life in Einbeck - Volume 15 of studies on Einbeck's history , Isensee-Verlag, 1998, page 115
2. ↑ Detlef Creydt, August Meyer: Forced Labor for Armaments in the Bergland in southern Lower Saxony , Steinweg-Verlag, ISBN 3925151583 , pages 89–91.