Max Seidel (politician)

Max Seidel (born January 21, 1906 in Breslau ; † March 21, 1983 in Fürth ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1953 to 1972 he was a member of the German Bundestag.

Life

Seidel attended elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in Central Silesia in 1922 and gave up his profession after he became district secretary of the SAJ in 1930. From 1924 he was a union member and also belonged to the SPD. From 1933 Seidel worked again as a carpenter for the time being. In 1934 he was indicted in a special court in Breslau, after which he was held in protective custody until 1939. Between 1940 and 1945 he was a soldier in World War II and after the end of the war he was taken into American captivity, from which he was only released in July 1946. Until 1947 he worked again as a carpenter in Nuremberg.

politics

Seidel became secretary of the SPD in Fürth in 1947 and remained so until 1948, the year after he was district secretary in Franconia . From 1950 to 1953 he was deputy state chairman of the SPD Bavaria. From 1958 to 1970 he was chairman of the SPD district of Franconia and from 1965 to 1970 chairman of the SPD party council.

Seidel was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1972. From 1953 to 1957 and from 1961 to 1965 he was directly elected in constituency 228 (Nuremberg-Fürth), in the remaining electoral periods he moved in via a list. From 1969 to March 4, 1971 he was deputy chairman of the committee for intra-German relations. From June 15, 1971 to 1972, he was deputy chairman of the Budget Committee , of which he was otherwise a full member in all electoral terms . He was also a member of the Committee for All-German and Berlin Issues from 1953 to 1969 and, in the second electoral period from 1953 to October 1955, of the Committee for the Protection of the Constitution.

His estate is administered by the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn.

Honors

• 1963: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 812.