Richard Partzsch

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Richard Partzsch

Richard Partzsch (born November 15, 1881 in Dresden , † November 6, 1953 in Hanover ) was a German SPD politician and trade unionist .

Life

Richard Partzsch was the father of Kurt Partzsch . He himself came from a working-class family . He became a decorative painter after school . Since 1902 he was a member of the SPD and active in the union. A few years before the First World War he was chairman of the local social democratic association in Dresden-Cotta . In 1913 he became managing director of the free trade union factory workers' association in Köslin . Since then he has also been a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Pomerania Province . In 1920 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly as a successor for a few months . In March 1920 he was also civil commissioner in Köslin. Between 1919 and 1922 Partzsch was a city councilor there.

In 1922 he moved to Hanover , where he was union secretary on the main board of the Association of Factory Workers in Germany until 1933 . In addition, he was again active in local politics and entered the Reichstag again in 1932/33 .

After the National Socialists seized power , he temporarily belonged to a local resistance group, the Socialist Front around Werner Blumenberg , before he was arrested in 1936 and only released in 1937. In the following years he was arrested again and again, most recently as part of the 1944 grid .

After the war Partzsch worked for Kurt Schumacher in Hanover in the office named after him, Dr. Schumacher and was a member of the board of the SPD until 1953. Professionally, from 1945 until his retirement in 1950, he was a manager (most recently department head) at the housing and district office in Hanover.

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  1. a b Klaus Mlynek: Partzsch, (3) Richard. In: Hannoversches ... (see literature)
  2. ^ Negotiations of the constituent German National Assembly. Volume 343, Berlin 1920, p. 3506 ( digitized version )