Paul Rosenthal

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Paul Rosenthal (born July 14, 1893 in Berlin , † June 22, 1977 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After attending elementary school, Rosenthal completed three years of commercial training and then worked as an employee. In the First World War he was a combatant from 1915 to 1918, deployed in Russia and France . After the end of the war, he started working as an independent wholesaler for tobacco products in 1920. He took over the deputy chairmanship of the Greater Berlin SME Committee and joined the German Democratic Party in 1928 .

As a member of the German State Party ran for this for the Berlin city council and for the Prussian state parliament . Since 1930 he has also worked as a sworn expert for sales tax issues. He was active in various commercial associations, he was a member of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, he took over the chairmanship of the Berlin tobacco wholesale trade and the deputy chairmanship of the association of the Central Association of German Wholesalers of the Tobacco Industry . He had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( membership number 3,076,648). In the party he held the post of political leader .

From 1945 he worked as an employee. On February 15, 1950, he was sentenced to one year imprisonment as an atonement in the Soviet zone of occupation as a suspect under Control Council Directive 38. However, the remainder of the sentence was waived by SMAD order 43, so that he was released in 1950. From 1950 onwards he worked as a managing director at Tabakwaren-Großhandelskontor GmbH. In 1952 Rosenthal joined the FDP; he became treasurer of the FDP district association of Hanover City and a member of the board and treasurer of the FDP district association of Greater Hanover.

From May 6, 1955 to May 5, 1959, Paul Rosenthal was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (3rd electoral period).

literature

  • Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 195f ( online as PDF) .
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 317.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period (PDF; 1.8 MB) p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1977
Place of death Hanover