Paul Lehmann (politician, 1883)

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Paul Lehmann (born October 22, 1883 in Neustadt in Saxony ; † November 3, 1961 in Niedereimer ) was a German Social Democrat and SED member (expelled from the party in 1955 due to escape from the GDR). Lehmann was 1929-1933 member of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Silesia in Breslau and 1947-1948 First Mayor of Wurzen .

Career

Paul Lehmann was the fifth of seven children of a railway conductor; the family lived in Leipzig from 1885 . He learned the profession of typesetter , wandered through Germany, Switzerland and Austria from 1903 to 1907 and then worked as a typesetter in Freiburg, Mannheim, Düren and Stuttgart. Lehmann was one of those red craftsmen to whom Willy Brandt's word applied that they were “the carriers of the bacillus of social democratic optimism” .

In Stuttgart he was a co-founder of the Socialist Workers' Youth and since 1902 a member of the SPD . He was 2nd chairman of the local SPD club in Leipzig- Loessnig and from 1919 to 1920 he was the treasurer of the local SPD club in Leipzig- Connewitz . Subsequently, Lehmann was SPD party secretary in Nordhausen (1920) and in Göttingen (1922–1928). Paul Lehmann was 1928-1933 SPD district secretary and chairman of the workers' welfare in Central Silesia and provincial member of the state parliament for Lower Silesia in Wroclaw . After the Nazis came to power, he was unemployed for six years before he was employed as an auditor and proofreader in Breslau from 1939 to 1945.

As the war front approached, he fled to Leipzig. Lehmann's first marriage to Mrs. Hedwig geb. Sommerlatte was divorced in 1940; In 1943 he married Rosa Maria Kolodziej, who was 20 years his junior and who was named Lehmann when they married.

Spice up

Paul Lehmann, who was 63 years old at the time, was unanimously elected as Wurzen's First Mayor on March 3, 1947 with 27 votes. Before that, from 1945 to 1947 he was a mediator in the Leipzig employment office and head of the West Saxony organization department. Lehmann achieved an important local political result on December 29, 1947 with the "General Statute for the City of Wurzen", which stated: "The City Council is the highest decision-making and decision-making body of the City of Wurzen".

He campaigned for a united Germany and on March 18, 1948, gave the speech on the 100th anniversary of the revolution of 1848 in the “Bürgergarten” .

On July 29, 1948, Lehmann resigned from his position “for health reasons”.

Retirement

Paul Lehmann fled the GDR on September 8, 1955 and was sent to North Rhine-Westphalia on October 3, 1955 after the admission procedure to the Federal Republic of Germany had ended. His wife fled to West Berlin on November 17, 1955 and applied for the restoration of the marital union there. As a reaction in the GDR to Lehmann's flight, his SED membership was canceled.

Paul Lehmann last lived in Niedereimer and died there on November 3, 1961.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansrainer Baum and Jürgen Schmidt: From Schmidt to Schmidt - About Wurzener Mayor 1832–2008. Wurzen 2011, without ISBN, pp. 87–90.
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (SPD, SED), Mayor of Wurzen (1947–1948)
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1961
Place of death Low bucket