Werner Lufft

Werner Lufft

Werner Lufft (born June 9, 1898 in Königsberg , † February 2, 1984 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and politician (SPD, SED).

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Lufft attended elementary school and a secondary school in Königsberg. From 1914 to 1917 Lufft took part in the First World War as a member of the Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 . After he had made up his Abitur in 1918, he studied political science , philosophy and history at the university and at the commercial school in Königsberg from 1919 to 1922 . Then he worked for the Oberpostdirektion in Königsberg and at the state employment office, later at the traveling exhibition East Prussia and the Königsberg East Fair.

In 1918 Lufft became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1921 he switched to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1923, Lufft finally joined the SPD district leadership in Königsberg. In the same year he became chairman of the district committee of the socialist youth workers in East Prussia. From 1924 to 1930 he worked as an editor and editor at the social democratic Königsberger Volkszeitung . He was also a member of the board of the East Prussian section of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold .

From 1928 to 1930 and from 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Berlin Reichstag for his party . During the 1928 legislative period, Lufft was the youngest member of parliament at just under thirty. There he represented constituency 1 (East Prussia). In 1930 he became district administrator in the Gerdauen district. Eight days after the so-called Prussian strike of July 20, 1932, Lufft was put into temporary retirement on July 28, 1932.

In 1946 Lufft joined the SED. From 1945 to 1947 he served as chief district administrator in Cottbus, then until 1949 as ministerial director in Potsdam . In the same year he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . There he was taken over into the state administration and held, among other things, the post of a consultant in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs.

Fonts

• Democratic district order for the Mark Brandenburg from December 19, 1946 , 1947 (together with Walter Beckmann)

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Lufft in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Lufft in the database of members of the Reichstag