Max Zipfel

Max Fürchtegott Zipfel (born July 26, 1883 in Dresden , † July 13, 1964 in Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and politician ( CDU ). From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Zipfel was born into a large family as the son of an elementary school teacher. After attending grammar school, he studied theology at the University of Leipzig and became a clergyman and pastor. After a short time as a teacher in Roßwein , he received his ordination as a pastor in Freiberg in November 1909 . From 1926 he was pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Georgen Schwarzenberg.

After the Second World War , he joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1945 and became a member of the CDU district board of Schwarzenberg and the CDU district board of Karl-Marx-Stadt . He belonged to the Peace Council of the GDR and was a member of the Christian Study Commission of the Peace Council. He was also a member of the Schwarzenberg District Committee and the Karl-Marx-Stadt District Committee of the National Front . In October 1954 he was elected to the People's Chamber with the CDU mandate, to which he belonged until 1958.

Pastor i. R. Max Zipfel died shortly before he was 81 on July 13, 1964 in Schwarzenberg.

literature

• People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (Ed.): Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 2nd electoral period . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1957, p. 383.
• WHO IS WHO in the SBZ ?. A biographical manual . Publishing house for international cultural exchange, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1958, p. 297.
• Anita Tonar: Small Schwarzenberg Chronicle from the 12th to the 21st Century . Regional Verlag Anita Tonar, 2006, p. 90.

Web links

• Clergy at St. Georgen in 6 centuries at www.st-georgen-schwarzenberg.de (accessed on March 6, 2018).

See also

• List of members of the People's Chamber of the GDR (2nd electoral period)