Fritz Mehrlein
Fritz Hugo Otto Mehrlein (born November 16, 1874 in Breslau ; † February 13, 1945 in Hamburg ) was a senator for the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
Life
Fritz was the son of a customs secretary born, attended the local grammar school and later in Hamburg , Silesia and Austria as action apprentice or clerk operates.
After his military service from 1893 to 1895, Mehrlein entered the Hamburg civil service . In the local quay administration he remained until June 1903. The Association of the Hamburg State employees he managed part-time and was editor of its journal. Mehrlein resigned from civil service in 1903 for political reasons. He went back to Breslau and worked as an editor for the "Breslauer Volkswacht". He stayed in Breslau until 1908, when he also became a workers' secretary .
In place of Rudolf Wissell , Mehrlein came to Lübeck as a workers' secretary in 1908 and remained in this position until his election to the Senate . He is a member of numerous committees such as the Committee for war wounded , Kriegshülfe , Mieteinigungsamt etc.
Mehrlein was a specialist in the areas of social policy and administration .
During the November Revolution of 1918 he was a member of the city's workers' council .
Under the chairmanship of the deputy spokesman Eschenburg, the citizenship elected five new senators on March 31, 1919 after the republican change due to the new constitution. A 16-member commission formed for the purpose of submitting proposals had agreed on this: Paul Hoff (soc.) For the retiring Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Albert Henze (soc.) For the retired Johann Georg Eschenburg , Carl Dimpker (dem.) For to propose Eduard Rabe , who has already resigned , Paul Löwigt for the deceased Possehl and Mehrlein (soc.) for Eduard Friedrich Ewers, who has resigned. In the subsequent election made by the citizens, they were elected senators with 74, 74, 75, 74 and 72 votes.
Here he initially worked as a police officer. In 1928 he was Commissioner for Reich and Foreign Affairs. He was also responsible for the Lübeck health department and was thus politically involved in the Lübeck vaccination accident . In the course of the conformity with the National Socialists, he gave up his office on March 6, 1933, together with the other Social Democratic senators.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 1039
- Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences ; Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986, pp. 79-82 (on 1933) ISBN 3-7950-0452-7
- Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 172 ff
Web links
- Fritz Mehrlein biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- ^ The newly elected members of the Senate. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 14, edition of April 13, 1919, pp. 53-54.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehrlein, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mehrlein, Fritz Hugo Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |