Max Sommerfeld

Max Sommerfeld (born February 25, 1905 in Preußisch Stargard , † June 10, 1967 in Ahrensburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

The early orphan Sommerfeld did an apprenticeship as a gardener after attending elementary school and was a member and chairman of the professional association of gardeners in Danzig . In 1923 he became a member of the SAJ and in 1925 of the SPD. Then he went to the state college for economics and administration in Berlin-Schmargendorf as part of a scholarship . A little later, Sommerfeld went to Königsberg , where he became chairman of the local association of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . He also managed to keep his foreign passport and to maintain contacts with other SPD members. After he was interned in the Gronowken labor camp for several months , he was a soldier during the Second World War , fled by sea to Pomerania and moved with his family to Reinfeld in Holstein by truck .

After the war, Sommerfeld called the first refugee meeting in Reinfeld. Shortly afterwards he became a refugee representative on the board of the Stormarn district association of the SPD and later also its chairman. He was a member of the first federal assembly and on January 19, 1954, moved to the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, to which he was a member until August 1954. He then worked as a union secretary in Hamburg .

Publications

• On the labor movement in East Prussia in "Central German Heimatbote"
• “The share of the East Prussian workers' movement in the resistance against National Socialism”, with W. Matull, yearbook of the Albertus University in Königsberg / Prussia, Würzburg 1967

Web links

• Max Sommerfeld in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein