Max Jahn (politician)

Max Jahn

Max Jahn (born June 3, 1881 in Hartha , † July 28, 1954 in Bremen ) was a German civil servant, politician ( SPD ) and mayor and sports official in Bremen.

biography

education and profession

Jahn was the son of a wheelwright. He attended elementary school and, like his father, learned the wheelwright trade. After hiking, he came to Bremen in 1899 and worked in his profession. In 1899 he joined the trade union and in 1901 the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 1914 he became a public service placement agent. After his time as a soldier from 1915 to 1918, he worked again at the public employment record office, and later the employment office of the German Reich , and rose to become a clerk and administrative officer. After the Second World War he briefly headed the Bremen employment office in 1945.

politics

In 1919/20 he was a member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly . In 1924 he was elected a member of the Bremen citizenship . He was active in the deputations for schools, health and sports. In 1927 he became secretary in the mayor's board, in 1931 then first vice-president and on March 6, 1933 president of the mayor. As a result of the takeover of power by the National Socialists , he lost his political office on March 15, 1933 and his professional position in July 1933. He was now working as a realtor. From 1939 to 1945 he served in the security police.

The sports official

Jahn was district treasurer from 1905 to 1933 and soon a district representative in the 11th district (north-west Germany) of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB). Under his leadership, the number of clubs rose from 114 with 10,553 members to 547 clubs with 41,400 members. At the Bundestag of the ATSB in Hamburg, Leipzig and Cologne he acted as a meeting leader. From 1919 to 1933 he co-founded the workers gymnastics and sports club “Bahnhofsvorstadt” . From 1919 to 1921 he was chairman of the committee for sports and playgrounds in the Bremen National Assembly.

In 1945 in post-war Bremen he was appointed by Senator Christian Paulmann (SPD) as the first sports officer of the state of Bremen as sports advisor to the school administration and head of the office for physical exercise and youth care. From mid-1945 he initiated the resumption and rebuilding of sports operations with the support of his sports inspector Paul Eule in Bremen. The " Ike Stadium" - the name of the Weser Stadium at the time - was able to organize the first sports festivals for the benefit of Bremer Sporthilfe as early as 1945 in front of 3 p.m. By October 1945 he was responsible for the establishment of 27 district-oriented, cross-sport "sports communities", each with three politically unaffected, "denazified" stewards. From March 1946 - against the resistance of Jahn, who advocated the model of the sports community - the old clubs were re-approved.

Citizenship Director

After his dismissal as head of the office for physical exercise - despite his success and commitment - failed due to the tenacious will to survive of the old, civic sports clubs, he was citizenry director of the Bremen citizenship from 1946 to 1954 . He rebuilt the administration of the citizenship.

Honors

The Max-Jahn-Weg in Bremen- Kattenturm was named after him.

literature

• Ralf Junkereit: 50 years of the Bremen State Sports Federation 1946 - 1996 . Ed .: Landessportbund Bremen, Bremen 1996.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .