Ludwig Hartenfels

Ludwig Hartenfels (born June 17, 1894 in Kreuznach , † April 6, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the FDP .

After the Second World War in 1945, Hartenfels, an advertising specialist by profession, was one of the founders of the Free Democrats party, which later became the Hamburg regional association of the FDP . On July 27, 1946 he was elected to the state executive committee of the Hamburg Liberals. He was also a member of the board of the FDP in the British occupation zone, from which he left in 1947. In the 1946 state election, he ran in the constituency of Fuhlsbüttel - Langenhorn - Ohlsdorf , but was unable to win any of the four mandates to be awarded there. Hartenfels belonged to the Hamburg Senate under Max Brauer since November 15, 1946 and was sent to the cultural authority as President. He resigned on November 1, 1949 shortly after the general election, in which the FDP ran together with the CDU and DKP as the father-city federation of Hamburg . In the 1949 state elections, he did not run on the state list, but only in the Wellingsbüttel constituency , which he was unable to win despite the electoral alliance.

In September 1950, Hartenfels resigned from the party because of the FDP's right-wing course in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia . After the FDP Hamburg had clearly declared war on this legal course at the meeting of its state committee on January 20, 1951, he rejoined the FDP two days later and justified this with the aim of "strengthening the liberal course". From 1953 to 1955 Hartenfels was the German consul in Glasgow .

literature

Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= Association for Democratic Openness . DemOkrit. 3). With a foreword by Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 .

Web links

Newspaper article about Ludwig Hartenfels in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Hamburger Freie Presse , July 31, 1946, p. 1.
^ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 276.
^ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 405.
↑ Quotation from the resignation letter, which is available in the Archives of Liberalism ( Gummersbach ), FDP-LV Hamburg, 30391/3: “In Hessen, NRW, the FDP goes together with militarists and advertises demagogically for people under the sign of black-white-red who are not brought to democracy or brought back, but are packed with their nationalist and Nazi feelings in order to catch the vote. "
↑ Quotation from a press release by Hartenfels of January 22, 1951, quoted from Christof Brauers: Die FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 489.

personal data
SURNAME	Hartenfels, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP), Senator for Culture in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1955
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Hamburger Freie Presse , July 31, 1946, p. 1.

[2] Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 276.

[3] Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 405.

[4] Quotation from the resignation letter, which is available in the Archives of Liberalism ( Gummersbach ), FDP-LV Hamburg, 30391/3: “In Hessen, NRW, the FDP goes together with militarists and advertises demagogically for people under the sign of black-white-red who are not brought to democracy or brought back, but are packed with their nationalist and Nazi feelings in order to catch the vote. "

[5] Quotation from a press release by Hartenfels of January 22, 1951, quoted from Christof Brauers: Die FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 489.