Louis Böcker

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Louis Böcker (born February 17, 1893 in Helstorf , Neustadt / Rbge .; † November 4, 1950 in Hanover ), also called Ludchen , was a German trade unionist , politician ( SPD ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Louis Böcker was born in the early days of the German Empire as the illegitimate son of the daughter of the Vesbeck shepherd . After attending primary school , he worked from 1907 to 1915 as a rubber worker, drill and hammer at the Excelsior rubber works in Limmer . During this time he joined the union of the factory workers' union in 1910 , and on January 1, 1911 also in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Between 1915 and 1918 Louis Böcker served as a soldier in World War I , but immediately after the end of the war in 1918 he resumed his work as a rubber worker at Excelsior. Even in this early period of the Weimar Republic , he was initially chairman of the so-called “ workers' council ” and later chairman of the works council.

From September 1, 1921 and 1933, Böcker expanded his work as a staff representative as a union employee in the factory workers' association, "Paying Office Hanover".

After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Böcker was released and put into political prison from October to December of that year . After his release from prison he worked from 1934 until the Second World War in 1940 as a newspaper advertiser and traveling agent in the soap trade.

During the Second World War, Louis Böcker was drafted into the air raid police in 1940 , where he worked as a driver during the air raids on Hanover and until 1945. During the entire period of the Nazi regime he had "[...] ensured connections between various party comrades [of the SPD] who lived underground," and in particular maintained close contacts with the resistance activist Albin Karl .

The British secret service classified Böcker as "[...] reliable and conscientious, first and foremost a trade unionist". After the end of the war, Louis Böcker received an order from the Reconstruction Committee on April 21, 1945 to rebuild the union. Böcker took over the duties of the first chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) in the Hanover district committee, initially provisionally, and then officially elected from October 1, 1947 .

With the approval of the British military government , Böcker had already been appointed a member of the Hanover City Council from January 1946 , and from October 1946 also an elected councilor of the City of Hanover. In addition, he became a member of the SPD executive committee in the Hanover district in spring 1947.

At the same time, Böcker had also become a member of the appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament on December 9, 1946 , in which he chaired the Labor Administration Committee until March 28, 1947 . Finally Böcker became a member of the elected Lower Saxony state parliament for the first electoral period from April 20, 1947. As a result, he resigned his mandate as a city councilor in July 1947, but continued to work in the state parliament in the labor administration committee.

In just a few years of the post-war period, Louis Böcker had successfully resisted the threat of dismantling several important Hanover plants. The MP died on November 4, 1950 in Hanover at the age of 57.

Böckerstrasse

According to the address book of the state capital Hanover from 1964, the Böckerstraße in the Hanoverian district of Bothfeld in 1963 was named "[...] after the head of the German trade union federation in Hanover before 1933".

Media coverage

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, p. 42.

Web links

  • District board 1950 , list with names and dates of the SPD district boards from 1950 on the page of the SPD district Hanover

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dirk von Werder: Helstorf / Louis Böcker - an early star in politics / Louis Böcker was a trade unionist and politician. The historian Stefan Weigang from Garbsen rediscovered the red political star during his research into the history of Helstorf. on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 11, 2013, updated on November 14, 2013, last accessed on November 11, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Barbara Simon: MPs in Lower Saxony 1946 - 1994. Biographisches Handbuch , ed. from the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Parliament, 1996, p. 42
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Klaus Mlynek : Böcker, Louis , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 60; online through google books
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Böcker street , in ibid .: The street name of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Böcker, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludchen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Helstorf
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1950
Place of death Hanover