Albert Rosshaupter

Albert Roßhaupter (* 8. April 1878 in Pillnach today Kirchroth ; † 14. December 1949 in Nannhofen (today Mammendorf ) or Olching ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life

Roßhaupter learned the painting trade, joined the SPD in 1897 and was district manager of the Association of South German Railway Workers in Munich from 1900 to 1909. At the same time he was temporarily employed by the main railway workshops in Munich. From 1909 Roßhaupter was an editor for various papers of the socialist labor movement . From 1907 to 1918 Roßhaupter was a member of the Bavarian SPD in the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

In the transition period between the November Revolution and the election of the Bavarian State Parliament on the basis of the Bamberg Constitution , he took over the office of Minister of State for Military Affairs in the Eisner cabinet from November 8, 1918 to February 21, 1919 . Pending the adoption of the NS - Enabling Act of 23 March 1933 and the consequent non reconvening of the national parliaments Roßhaupter remained SPD deputy in Parliament. When the Bavarian State Parliament was re-established under the Provisional Act to bring the states into line with the Reich , Roßhaupter took over the chairmanship of the SPD state parliamentary group. On April 29, 1933, as parliamentary group chairman, he justified the rejection of the Bavarian Enabling Act by the SPD parliamentary group. He was considered a particularly active opponent of the National Socialists .

During the period of National Socialism , Roßhaupter was imprisoned several times. From June to September 1933 he was imprisoned in Fürstenfeldbruck prison. He was then imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp until March 1934 . In connection with the “ Aktion Gewitter ”, Roßhaupter returned to the Dachau concentration camp (from August to December 1944).

After the end of the Second World War, Roßhaupter was Bavarian Labor and Social Affairs Minister in the Schäffer cabinet and Deputy Prime Minister in the Hoegner I cabinet from 1945 to 1947 . In 1946 he was a member of the state constituent assembly. At times he was chairman of her SPD parliamentary group. From October 1948 to May 1949 Roßhaupter sat for the SPD in the Parliamentary Council .

See also : History of Bavaria , the Munich Soviet Republic and election to the state assembly in Bavaria in 1946

Honors

In Munich a street was named after Albert Roßhaupter, in Olching a square.

Sources / literature

• Albert Roßhaupter in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Maget, Franz u. a. (Ed.): With passion for democracy: 110 years of the SPD parliamentary group in Bavaria . Munich 2003.
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 364, 629 (short biography).

Web links

• Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia in the Google book search
2. ^ Albert Roßhaupter in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
3. ^ SPD politician died in Olching . Article dated October 11, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018.