Max Leuteritz

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Max Leuteritz (born April 27, 1884 in Ockrilla ; † April 12, 1949 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the SPD and President of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Max Leuteritz, son of a carpenter , attended elementary school in Ockrilla, his birthplace in Saxony . He married in 1913.

From 1898 to 1901 he trained there as a bricklayer and plasterer and from 1905 to 1910 he worked in this profession. He was also active in the free trade union movement. It was organized in the bricklayers' association in Iserlohn, Bochum and Dortmund, among others. In Dortmund he also worked as an employee of the association.

In addition to his job and trade union activity, he had been an active member of the Social Democratic Party since 1902. From 1909 to 1910 he attended the Central Party School in Berlin. This was followed by a position in the central office of the construction workers' association in Hamburg from 1910 to 1913. He then left Hamburg again and worked for the association in various places in Germany.

During the Weimar Republic he sat continuously for the SPD from 1919 to 1933 in the Hamburg parliament. There he took over the office of President of the Hamburg Citizenship from Rudolf Ross in March 1928 . He held the office until 1931 and was replaced by Herbert Ruscheweyh . In the position of president he was not without controversy. Within the party he was from January 1919 to May 1929 party secretary and chairman of the SPD regional organization in Hamburg until he took over the presidency.

During the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 he was in custody for twelve days and was interned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp for a month in 1944 as part of the so-called " Aktion grid " . In addition, like many other Social Democrats, he lost his job during this time.

After the Second World War , from July 1945 to February 1946 he took over the post of senator for the Hamburg building administration in the Senate appointed by the British occupation forces. In addition, he worked from March 1946 until his death (1949) as director of the Hamburg Reconstruction Fund.

literature

  • SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, p. 313.

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Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Henning Timpke (ed.): Documents on the Gleichschaltung of the State of Hamburg 1933. Frankfurt a. M. 1964, p. 20.