Richard Reitzner

Richard Reitzner (born August 19, 1893 in Einsiedel near Marienbad ( Bohemia ); † May 11, 1962 in Haar ) was a German politician (until 1938 in Czechoslovakia : DSAP , then SPD ) and a functionary for expellees.

After attending the teacher training college in Hollabrunn , Reitzner worked as a teacher and trained as a guest student at the Charles University in Prague . He took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 , joined the labor movement in 1920 and became a member of the DSAP . In addition, he was active as a functionary in the Workers' Sports International.

After the annexation of the Sudeten area by the German Reich , Reitzner emigrated to Great Britain in 1938 , where he stood up for Sudeten German interests and vehemently rejected the expulsion plans of the Czechoslovakian President Edvard Beneš .

Reitzner moved to West Germany as a displaced person in 1946 , settled in Eglfing near Munich, where he was the founder of a housing association. He joined the SPD and was deputy state chairman of the party in Bavaria from 1948 to 1949 . From 1947 to 1948 he was Deputy State Secretary for Refugee Affairs in Bavaria.

Reitzner was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 until his death. There he was a refugee expert of the SPD (member of the Seliger community ) and from 1953 until his death he headed the parliamentary group's “Refugees and Displaced Persons” working group. From 1949 to 1957 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee on expellees.

Reitzner was always elected to the Bundestag via the state list of the SPD Bavaria.

In 1950 he was one of the founders of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft .

On July 3, 1959, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 680.