Max Simon (politician, 1884)

Max Simon (born November 1, 1884 in Schönbankwitz , † November 8, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German teacher and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Max Simon was born the son of an inn owner. After graduating from elementary school, he first went to the preparatory institute in Breslau and then attended the teachers' seminar in Bunzlau . From 1904 to 1908 he taught at the half-day school in Polish Tarnau , from 1908 to 1910 at the elementary school in Schwarzbach near Hirschberg and from 1910 to 1914 at the 11th community school in Berlin . In 1913 he passed the secondary school teacher examination in German and history. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . During the war he was used first with the 1st Guards Regiment on foot and then as a driver in the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 204 . From May 1915 he served as a reserve lieutenant and company commander in Landwehr Regiment No. 2. At the front he was wounded three times, the last one seriously from five machine gun shots. For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge in Silver. In February 1919 he was discharged from the army.

Simon had passed the rector's examination in 1916. He worked as a teacher at the 94th community school in Berlin from 1919 and was principal at a school in Neusalz from October 1919 until his dismissal in 1933 . In addition to his professional activity, he devoted himself to writing.

Simon joined the SPD and was from 1920 to 1923 chairman of the SPD sub-district and of the workers' education committee in Neusalz. From 1920 to 1928 he was chairman of the working group of social democratic teachers for the Liegnitz district , from 1927 to 1933 a member of the main board of the union of German people teachers in the General German Civil Service Association and from 1932 to 1933 chairman of the SPD district committee for agricultural policy. In 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Simon was imprisoned in the Börgermoor and Lichtenburg concentration camps. After 1945 he worked as a ministerial official in Berlin.

Works

• Free Spirits , 1908
• Bear and Aar , 1912
• Pioneer summer before Als , 1914
• Mother and Fatherland , 1916
• Merry Free Songs , 1919
• The Kronenhof , 1921
• Trariro , 1924
• Kuno Reimer , 1924
• Our social democratic agricultural program , 1930
• Learns from Denmark , 1930
• Look to the East , 1931

literature

• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 385.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 1474.

Web links

• Max Simon biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)