Louis Rennert
Louis Max Bernhard Rennert (born January 18, 1880 in Lauchröden , † October 8, 1944 in Sonneberg ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the state parliament in the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen as well as the state of Thuringia and a local politician.
Life
Rennert was born the son of a tüncher . After attending elementary school, he did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then worked as a journeyman until 1907. From 1905 he was a functionary of the bricklayers 'association in Eisenach , from 1907 to 1914 a trade union official in the central association of bricklayers in Strasbourg and from 1914 to 1915 in the German construction workers' association in Meiningen . He became a member of the SPD. In the years from 1915 to 1919 he did military service in World War I , most recently as a non-commissioned officer.
After the war he worked from March to December 1919 as an editor at the “Werra-Wacht Meiningen”. In 1919 and 1920 he was a member of the People's Council before he became a member of the Thuringian Parliament between 1920 and 1932 after the state of Thuringia was founded. From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the Meininger Landtag (regional representative from 1920). In 1921 and 1922 he was the SPD party secretary in Meiningen and a civil servant state councilor in the Meiningen regional government. From 1921 to 1923 he also held the position of honorary councilor for Meiningen in the Thuringian state government.
From October 1, 1922 to May 31, 1924, Rennert acted as district director ( district administrator ) in Meiningen until he was ousted as part of the Reich execution against Thuringia. From January 1, 1931 to March 24, 1933 he was mayor of Rauenstein . After the National Socialists came to power , he became unemployed and from 1935 found a job as a representative for sewing machines and head of a sales point for the consumer cooperative in Grümpen , which he worked until 1940. In February 1941 he became the central warehouse keeper of the consumer cooperative in Sonneberg. In the autumn of 1944 he was arrested as part of the " Operation Grid " and briefly held in the Buchenwald concentration camp . He died of heart failure immediately after being released.
estate
His written estate has been in the Meiningen State Archives since 2018 .
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 544-545 .
- Biography of Louis Rennert . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Norbert Moczarski: A forgotten parliament paved the way to Thuringia ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Meiningen, o. S. (PDF)
- ↑ Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 34 (on Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rennert, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rennert, Louis Max Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL in the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen and Thuringia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leek rotting |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1944 |
| Place of death | Sonneberg |