Paul Lehmann (politician, 1888)

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Paul Lehmann (born February 19, 1888 in Priebus ; † after 1949) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD , SED ).

Life

After graduating from primary school in 1894, Lehmann completed an apprenticeship as a glassmaker and was then employed as a glass worker. He joined the trade union in 1906, was an employee of the glass workers 'association in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz from 1920 to 1926 and from 1926 to 1933 Gauleiter of the factory workers' association in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .

Lehmann joined the SPD in 1907. From 1919 to 1920 he was a city ​​councilor in Brand-Erbisdorf , from 1924 to 1926 a local councilor in Weißwasser and from 1925 to 1929 a member of the Lower Silesian Provincial Parliament . In 1928 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1933. During the Nazi era he was imprisoned in 1934 and again in August 1944.

After the Second World War , Lehmann lived in Görlitz . In the course of the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in 1946, he became a member of the SED and, as the successor to the late Paul Gruner, was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1947 to 1949 .

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 356.

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