Martin Raetz

Martin Raetz (born October 10, 1890 in Altena ; † cannot be determined) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Life

Raetz was a musician by profession. He joined the SPD in 1917 , later became a member of the Spartakusbund and in 1919 a member of the KPD. For some time he was chairman of the local groups of the KPD, the Red Aid and the Red Front Fighters Association in Neubrandenburg as well as a city councilor. He was also a member of the KPD district leadership in Mecklenburg. From 1923 to 1927 Raetz was a member of the KPD in the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. At the end of the 1920s he moved to Magdeburg, where he did an honorary job in the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union . At least around 1939 he lived in Magdeburg's Alte Neustadt district at Sieverstorstraße 2 .

During the Nazi dictatorship, Raetz applied for membership in the SS - according to his own statements . Raetz had various engagements as a musician, including with spa orchestras. He was arrested in August 1944 for supporting forced laborers and then drafted into military service in the Wehrmacht . He became a British prisoner of war .

After his release he returned to Mecklenburg and in 1946 became a member of the SED . He first worked in the Mecklenburg provincial administration. Raetz later worked as district secretary of the People's Solidarity in Neubrandenburg . In March 1947 he was expelled from the SED - probably because of his past during the Nazi era. In 1951 his status as persecuted by the Nazi regime was revoked.

The further fate of Raetz could not be determined.

literature

• Raetz, Martin . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 697.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Magdeburg address book for 1939 . Verlag August Scherl Successor, Part I, p. 304.