Philipp Martzloff

Philipp Martzloff (born March 7, 1880 in Drulingen , Lower Alsace, † November 13, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Career

Martzloff was born as the illegitimate son of Louise Martzloff. His father was a court secretary. From 1894 to 1897 he completed an apprenticeship as a tailor in Freiburg and later worked full-time as a union secretary.

His political career began in 1898 when he joined the SPD. As a recognized expert on social issues, he led after the First World War from January to April 1919 in the Baden Provisional People's Government of Anton Geiss provisionally the Ministry of transitional economy, housing and social welfare. During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the state parliament of the Republic of Baden between 1919 and 1921 and between 1925 and 1933 . After the National Socialists came to power, he was exposed to political persecution and temporarily interned in the Ankenbuck and Dachau concentration camps.

After the end of the Second World War he was a co-founder of the Socialist Party in Baden. From the French military government for Baden he was appointed on February 20, 1946 as head of the ministerial directorate for labor and after the incorporation of the labor ministry into the economics ministry remained ministerial director for labor until 1952. He was also president of the Baden state labor office.

From November 1946 to April 1947 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Baden . With the election of May 18, 1947, he moved as a direct candidate in the constituency of Rastatt-Baden-Baden in the re-established Baden state parliament and was chairman of the budget committee. After Franz Geiler's death in October 1948, Martzloff was also elected Vice President of the State Parliament.

Private

On August 14, 1900 Martzloff married Marie Ehret, who was born on July 19, 1876 in Neustadt in the Black Forest. From this marriage the children Elisabeth (* October 1, 1901), Rudolf (* August 23, 1903; † September 1, 1996) and Helmut (* March 12, 1915; † September 19, 2007) emerged.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Josef Weik: Member of the Bundestag and Landtag history of Baden-Württemberg 1945–1980. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-915500-7 .

Web links

• Speeches by Philipp Martzloff in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek