Paul Bromme

Paul Franz Rudolf Bromme (* 24. December 1906 in Ronneburg (Thuringia) ; † 2. February 1975 in Luebeck ) was a German politician of the SPD , journalist and resistance fighter against the Nazis .

Life

The son of the social democratic politician and Lübeck Senator William Bromme studied economics and law at the University of Hamburg from 1926 to 1928 and joined the SPD in 1927. From 1930 he worked as a journalist for the SPD newspaper Lübecker Volksbote .

In 1933, after the NSDAP came to power , Bromme took part in the illegal resistance work , but had to go into exile in May 1933. First from the Czechoslovak Republic, from 1934 from Denmark and from 1935 from Sweden, Bromme played a leading role in the transport of illegal printed matter to Germany. At this time belonging to the left wing of the Sopade , Bromme also worked temporarily with the Revolutionary Socialists of Germany (RSD) and took part in various attempts to collect anti-fascist emigrants, such as the attempt to work with u. a. to build a popular front alliance for the KPD , and in attempts to coordinate German and Austrian socialists in Scandinavia. He stayed temporarily in Norway from 1938 to 1940, where he a. a. worked with Willy Brandt . Journalistic and active in refugee support organizations, Bromme was from 1941 to 1947 foreign policy editor of the Swedish social democratic regional daily Örebro-Kuriren .

In September 1948 Bromme returned to Lübeck and was elected chairman of the SPD there. Professionally, he initially worked as head of the city's press office, from 1949 to 1951 as editor-in-chief of the social democratic Lübeck Free Press . In 1948 he was also elected to the Lübeck citizenship, to which he belonged until 1974.

Bromme was in the first electoral term (1949–1953) of the German Bundestag, a member of the SPD for the Lübeck constituency . In the course of an investigation into the economic difficulties of the Lübeck Free Press , Bromme was temporarily relieved of his party posts in 1953 until his rehabilitation the following year. From 1954 to 1971 he was SPD member of parliament in the parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1954 he was also elected to the Lübeck Senate, where he served in the following years as Senator for Municipal Affairs and for Tourism and Economic Development, in 1956 he was also elected Lübeck's first deputy mayor.

In 1973 Bromme was expelled from the party as one of the organizers of the Julius Leber Society , an association of right-wing SPD members who opposed the imperative mandate propagated by the Young Socialists .

Honors

• 1968: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 102.
• Thomas Pusch: Political Exile as a History of Migration. Schleswig-Holstein emigrants and Scandinavian exile 1933-1960. Flensburg 2003, pp. 390–409 (as a PDF file here ; PDF; 3.1 MB).
• Ulrich Meyenborg : Paul Bromme (1906-1975), a social democrat in political exile and in Lübeck post-war politics. Memories and assessments. Archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2013, Issue 22 of the small books on the city's history.
• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007. Volume 46 of series B of publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, pp. 52–54.

Web links

• Paul Bromme in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament information system