Martin Mährlein

Martin Mährlein (born November 10, 1892 in Seitendorf , Waldenburg (Schles) district , † July 26, 1973 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Martin Mährlein attended elementary school and did an apprenticeship in the workers' secretariat of the Hirsch-Duncker trade unions in Waldenburg . He also attended a commercial college and joined the union in 1912. In 1913 he first made his military service and was then drafted in the First World War . From 1919 to 1928 Mährlein was the managing director of a non-profit housing association, and in 1920 he joined the SPD. In 1928 he switched to the Reich Association of War Participants and War Disabled , where he became head of the Brandenburg and Grenzmark districts . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Mährlein was reprimanded in 1933. From 1935 he was a commercial clerk.

After the Second World War , Mährlein became managing director of the Reichsbahn -Siedlungs-GmbH. Since Bruno Lösche was still the district councilor in the Tiergarten district , Mährlein was able to move up to the Berlin House of Representatives in May 1951 . In 1963, at the end of the legislative period, he left parliament because of his age.

Honor

After Mährlein's death, the Martin-Mährlein-Weg in Berlin-Britz along the Teltow Canal was named.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 179 (331 pages).