Ludwig Preller (politician)
Oskar Ludwig Preller (born February 16, 1897 in Burgstädt , † November 29, 1974 in Rossert ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1948 to 1950 he was Minister for Labor, Economics and Transport of the State of Schleswig-Holstein and from 1951 to 1957 a member of the German Bundestag .
education and profession
After graduating from high school, Preller studied economics , which he completed with a degree in economics and a doctorate . From 1926 he was a councilor in the Berlin Ministry of Labor and in the Saxon Ministry of Labor and Welfare. In 1933 he was dismissed as "politically unreliable" and worked from 1933 to 1935 as editor of the Berlin weekly newspaper Blick in die Zeit .
After the Second World War, Preller was significantly involved in the re-establishment of the Society for Social Reform , one of the most influential socio-political institutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a Society for Social Progress and was its chairman from 1949 to 1952. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Culture Prize of the German Trade Union Confederation and was involved in the nomination of the award winners from 1964 to 1973.
As a social scientist , Preller was also an honorary professor . His book on social policy in the Weimar Republic is still a standard work on the subject.
Together with his wife Elisabeth Preller rests in the Wilmersdorf cemetery .
MP
From August 7, 1950 to October 13, 1950 he was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein .
On March 16, 1951, he was elected to the German Bundestag for Georg August Zinn , who was elected Prime Minister of Hesse , and was a member of the Bundestag from 1953 to 1957 as a directly elected member of the constituency of Kassel .
Public offices
From August 6, 1948 to September 5, 1950, Preller was a member of the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Hermann Lüdemann and, from 1949, by Bruno Diekmann , as Minister for Labor, Economics and Transport .
Honors
- He was awarded the Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1969.
See also
Works
- Social Policy in the Weimar Republic , Stuttgart 1949; Unchanged reprint, Düsseldorf 1978. ISBN 3-7610-7210-4 .
literature
- Rudolph Bauer : Preller, Ludwig , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 478f.
Web links
- Ludwig Preller in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
- Literature by and about Ludwig Preller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Ludwig Preller in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ [1] Website of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Bruno Diekmann | Ludwig Preller | Hermann Andersen | Hermann Böhrnsen | Knud Knudsen | Gerhard Gaul | Karl-Heinz Narjes | Jürgen Westphal | Manfred Biermann | Roger Asmussen | Franz Froschmaier | Uwe Thomas | Peer Steinbrück | Horst Günter Bülck | Bernd Rohwer | Dietrich Austermann | Werner Marnette | Jörn Biel | Jost de Jager | Reinhard Meyer | Bernd Klaus Buchholz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Preller, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgstädt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1974 |
| Place of death | Rossert |