Fritz Heine
Fritz Heine (born December 6, 1904 in Hanover ; † May 5, 2002 in Zülpich ) was a German politician and publishing manager.
Life
At the beginning of his career he worked as a commercial clerk. He also worked as an editor for a Hanoverian sports newspaper.
As the son of the organ builder Friedrich Hein, who joined the Social Democrats at an early age, he joined the SPD in 1922 . Since 1925 he was in Berlin working at the party executive and built in 1928, the central publicity department of the SPD, whose technical director he was. After the Nazi seizure of power in January 1933, he fled to Prague with a large part of the party's cash assets . From there he was involved in the resistance work against the Nazis. Heine was often on the road with false papers as a courier for the SPD in the German Reich.
As a result of the annexation of the Sudetenland and strong pressure on the rest of Czechoslovakia, Heine fled to Paris in 1938 and there took over the publishing management of the party newspaper “ Neuer Vorwärts ”. During this time he was also expatriated from the German Reich. After German troops occupied France, he was interned for a short time before he managed to escape to the then unoccupied Marseille .
There he organized the rescue of several hundred German-Jewish refugees on behalf of the exile party executive of the SPD ( SOPADE ) and in cooperation with Varian Fry . This earned him the honorary name “Angel of Marseille” and in 1988 the Israeli award “ Righteous Among the Nations ”. In 1941 the Germans demanded the extradition of Heine from the Vichy government , who fled to London after a short stay in Lisbon .
In February 1946, Heine returned to West Germany. In May 1946 he was elected full-time board member of the SPD and was one of the closest confidants of Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer . Heine was CIA contact at SPD and DGB , responsible u. a. for staffing the DGB management. Until 1958 he was a member of the party executive committee of the SPD, responsible for leading the federal election campaigns in 1949, 1953 and 1957. At the 1958 Stuttgart party congress, Heine was no longer elected to the executive committee. In June 1958 he became the managing director of Concentration GmbH , a then important interest group of the SPD's own publishing and business enterprise. In 1974 he retired.
On March 18, 1997, Fritz Heine received a needle and certificate for his 75-year membership in the SPD from the then Federal Managing Director of the SPD, Franz Müntefering , at the Kurt Schumacher Academy .
In 1961 Heine married his long-time partner Marianne Schreiber . Even after her death, Heine lived in Bad Münstereifel , district Scheuren, until the end .
Fonts
- Dr. Kurt Schumacher. A democratic socialist with European characteristics. Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1969.
literature
- Stefan Appelius : Heine. The SPD and the long road to power. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1999 ISBN 3-88474-721-5 .
- Stefan Appelius (Ed.): "The devil get Hitler": Letters of the social democratic emigration , 1st edition, Essen: Klartext, 2003, ISBN 3-88474-824-6 .
- Klaus Mlynek : HEINE, (1) Fritz. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 159; online through google books
- Klaus Mlynek: Heine, Fritz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 281.
Awards
- The Marie Juchacz plaque of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt was awarded to him in 1971.
- Righteous of the Nations ( Yad Vashem 1988)
- Wenzel Jaksch Prize (1990)
- Honorary Citizen of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (2001)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (2002)
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Heine in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about Fritz Heine on the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung homepage
- Information about Fritz Heine on the website of Prof. Dr. Stefan Appelius
- Gerechter unter den Völkers by Rolf Kasiske originally published in Vorwärts 2001 and, slightly modified, published again in 2006.
Individual evidence
- ^ Supplement to the SPD newspaper: vorwäerts 1876-2016, vorwärts from 30.0.2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heine, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) and publishing manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 2002 |
| Place of death | Zülpich |