Martin Elsner

Martin Elsner (born February 3, 1900 in Langseifersdorf , Silesia , † December 1, 1971 in Volkmarode ) was a German farmer and politician.

Life and work

After attending school, Elsner studied agriculture from 1922 to 1925 in Breslau and Göttingen, which he completed with the examination to become a qualified farmer. He initially worked as an administrator of agricultural goods and had been an independent farmer since 1932. Towards the end of the Second World War he was a soldier. In May 1945 he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1948.

Elsner moved to West Germany as a displaced person in 1948 and settled in Lower Saxony . He initially worked as a farm worker, has been involved in expellees' associations since 1949 and later became the settlement commissioner of the Federation of Expellees German (BvD) in Braunschweig .

Political party

Elsner was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 383.459) and the SS (membership number 6.014). After the Second World War he joined the GB / BHE .

MP

Elsner was a council member of the community of Neubrück and a district council member of the district of Braunschweig . In the Bundestag election in 1953 , he entered the German Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list , to which he was a member until 1957.

Public offices

Elsner was from 1933 to 1942 district administrator of the Rosenberg district and then until 1945 district administrator of the Rybnik district .

From 1952 to 1954 and from 1963 to 1964 he was the district administrator of the Braunschweig district.

literature

• Günter Scheel: Elsner, Martin . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 161 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ District administrators and senior district directors from 1946 . In: Landkreis Braunschweig (Ed.): Heimatbote des Landkreis Braunschweig 1974 . Oeding, Braunschweig 1974, p. 27 .