Max Staercke

Max Staercke (born September 5, 1880 in Berlin , † July 10, 1959 in Detmold ) was a German newspaper publisher and politician in Detmold.

Life

After attending primary school, Staercke did an apprenticeship as typesetter and printer in Blomberg from 1895 to 1899. From 1905 he was editor of the Lippische Landes-Zeitung , after 1907 he headed the newspaper. In 1912 he bought the Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung from Adolf Neumann-Hofer . In 1920 he then acquired the Lippische Landes-Zeitung and continued to run it as editorial and business director. In 1935 he sold the newspaper to the Nazi publisher Lippische Staatszeitung . After moving to Berlin, Staercke founded Maximilian Verlag. In 1945 he was arrested in Güstebiese (Ldkr. Königsberg) and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In 1945 he was able to return to Detmold. In 1955 he received the Federal Cross of Merit.

Political activity

In 1901 Staercke co-founded the Lippe Liberal Party. In 1912 he was a city councilor in Detmold. In the state elections in Lippe in 1913 , he was elected to the Lippe state parliament. He was a member of the People's and Soldiers' Council of the State of Lippe from November 1918 to February 1919 and a member of the Landtag of the State of Lippe. During the Weimar Republic , he changed party membership several times. The DDP he represented from 1919 to 1920 in the state parliament, from 1925, the Economic Association of property owners, mortgagees and savers and from 1929 the DVP .

Together with Heinz Krekeler , after the Second World War he brought together the two existing district associations of the FDP in the Lemgo and Detmold districts and founded the Lippe regional group of the FDP on September 6, 1946. In 1949 he was accepted as an honorary member of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen . From 1948 to 1956 he was a member of the Detmold district council.

literature

• Andreas Ruppert: Publicist and politician - Max Staercke (1880-1959) , in: Heimatland Lippe, magazine of the Lippischen Heimatbund and the Landesverband Lippe, 102nd year, No. 2, February 2009.
• Andreas Ruppert: Max Staercke (1880-1959) - publicist and politician in Lippe in: Rosenland magazine for Lippe history, September 2011, page 35, online (PDF; 2.1 MB).
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 236.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Staercke's biography and bibliography. (PDF; 12.7 kB) Retrieved May 16, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Scheffler, in Rosenland, Journal for Lippische Geschichte, No. 09/2009, Local Remembrance in the Shadow of the Past. The memorial service for the Lippe Jews in Lemgo in 1948. An exhibition on history politics and the culture of remembrance in the early post-war years. Staercke had the idea for the memorial ceremony. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )