Moritz-Ernst Priebe

Moritz-Ernst Priebe (born January 17, 1902 in Boguschau , West Prussia , † January 26, 1990 in Bad Bodenteich ) was a German theologian and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Preußisch Stargard and being expelled from West Prussia in 1919, Priebe moved to Pomerania , settled in Stargard and completed a traineeship at the local district administration. He studied philosophy and theology in Berlin from 1921 to 1925 , traveled abroad from 1925 to 1927 and went to Argentina in 1928 . Here he first worked as a parish vicar from 1934 before he was ordained as a pastor in 1937 and took up an activity as pastor of a congregation of the United Lutheran Church of America in Eldorado . After returning to Germany in 1939, he took part in the Second World War as a soldier from 1940 to 1945 . Most recently he was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946. Then he worked as a pastor of the Free Evangelical Congregation in Uelzen .

Political party

Priebe joined the SPD in 1946. He had been chairman of the Uelzen SPD district association since 1948 and was elected chairman of the Uelzen / Lüchow-Dannenberg SPD sub-district in 1951.

MP

After 1945, Priebe was a council member of the Bodenteich community and a member of the district council of the Uelzen district . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1965. In the first electoral term he represented the constituency of Uelzen in parliament. In the remaining electoral terms he entered the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list .

Public offices

Priebe was initially deputy mayor and has been mayor of the Bodenteich community since 1960.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 656-657.