Max Finck

Max Finck (born July 25, 1899 in Hamburg , † February 11, 1977 ) was a German lawyer and former member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

After graduating from the Johanneum , Max Finck studied economics and law. In 1930 he opened a law firm at Grosse Bleichen No. 30 in Hamburg. As a member of the SPD and criminal defense lawyer in political trials, he was targeted by the National Socialists . In August 1933, his license to practice as a lawyer was withdrawn at their behest.

Because of his political past, he could not find work and moved to Copenhagen in 1934 . But even there it was not possible for him to find employment as an emigrant . Back in Germany, he was sentenced to one year and six months in prison in November 1935 for alleged aiding and abetting in preparation for high treason and was held in Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , today's penal institution, until May 1936 . In 1937 Finck was sentenced to one year and six months in prison and was released in March 1937, taking into account the previous prison term. As an unemployed person, he was temporarily dependent on his mother's support. It was only with the war-related shortage of labor that he was employed as a syndic for the Association of North German Housing Companies. The social democratic journalist Erich Klabunde was also staying there after being banned from writing .

After the end of the war in 1945, Max Finck was again admitted to the bar and until 1949 took over the management of the Housing and Settlement Office. From 1949 to 1966 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Among other things, he was named as chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into events at the Hamburger Hochbahn .

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• Helga Kutz-Bauer: For freedom and democracy - life stories , published by the working group of formerly persecuted social democrats
• Parliamentary documentation of the Hamburg citizenship: Parliamentary committees of inquiry since 1946.