Max Hampel

Max Hampel (born February 21, 1893 in Breslau ; † May 17, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( DDP , CDU ).

Max Hampel was the son of a master locksmith and attended a middle school in Breslau, which he graduated with secondary school leaving certificate. In 1908 he became a cabin boy in the merchant navy and was a seaman until 1913 . He attended the seafaring school in Geestemünde and received the patent as a helmsman . During the First World War he was a seaman in the Kriegsmarine .

In 1918 Hampel attended the citizens' school in Berlin and joined the German Democratic Party (DDP). He then became party secretary of the DDP in Hanover and Detmold . In 1920 he became general secretary of the DDP in the province of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1933, Hampel was still managing director of the Anti-Semitism Association , but when the National Socialists " seized power " he became an independent businessman. In 1939 he became a police reserve confiscated and fell in April 1945 in Soviet captivity .

Election poster of the CDU in Berlin-Kaulsdorf from 1946

After the Second World War , Hampel joined the CDU and immediately became managing director of the CDU Berlin . In the first Berlin election in 1946 he was elected to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . Until 1964 he was district councilor for health in the Tempelhof district .

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. 115 (331 pages).