Ludwig Linsert

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Ludwig Linsert (born October 2, 1907 in Munich ; † July 29, 1981 there ) was a social democratic politician , trade unionist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Linsert, who comes from a social democratic working-class family, completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and electrical engineer after attending elementary school. Since the age of fourteen he has been a member of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV), he joined the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) in 1931 and was a youth leader at the Friends of Nature . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , the grocery store in the Laim district , which had been run by Linsert and his wife Margot since 1933, functioned as a meeting point and base for resistance work (including leaflet campaigns, hanging slogans on house walls) of the Munich ISK group, in which, in addition to the Linserts and the like. a. and Ludwig Koch and Hans Lehnert were leading active.

After the wave of arrests against ISK groups that began in 1937, the Munich ISK group was broken up by the Gestapo in late summer 1938 . Linsert was sentenced to two years in prison for preparing to commit high treason . After his release from prison, he was assigned to the Penal Division 999 on the Eastern Front from 1943 , where he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944, from which he returned in 1947.

Back in Munich, Linsert was involved in the DGB , for which he worked full-time from 1949, from 1950 as Munich district chairman and from 1958 to 1969 as state chairman for Bavaria. Linsert, who joined the SPD in 1948 , was still a union representative in the Bavarian Senate between 1956 and 1969 and served as its vice-president from 1967 until he left two years later. From 1979 until his death he served as the federal chairman of the Working Group of Formerly Persecuted Social Democrats (AvS).

Honors

In the Ramersdorf-Perlach district of Munich , a street is named after Ludwig Linsert. He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on December 15, 1959.

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SURNAME Linsert, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD), trade unionists and resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1981
Place of death Munich