Heinrich Detjen

Heinrich Detjen (born January 30, 1899 in Saarbrücken ; † February 27, 1968 ) was a Saarland politician ( KPD / DFU ).

Detjen initially earned his living as a painter and construction worker. In 1917 he was drafted as a soldier and arrested in 1918 for desertion and incitement .

From 1916 he was a member of the SPD , in 1918 he joined the USPD and in 1920 switched to the SPD again. From 1927 he finally belonged to the KPD. In 1929 he was elected to the Saarbrücken city council and from 1934 chaired his parliamentary group there. At the same time he was a member of the Saar Regional Council from 1932 to 1935 .

A few weeks after the Saar referendum in 1935, Detjen, like many opponents of reintegration, emigrated to France , where he was involved in Red Aid . In September 1939 he was interned and then assigned to a work company. In 1940 he was extradited to Saarland and taken into custody. The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court sentenced him to one and a half years in prison. After his imprisonment he worked as a painter until the end of the war.

After the liberation of Saarland by the US Army in March 1945, he worked in the Saarbrücken city administration, most recently as an alderman and city director. Detjen joined the newly founded Saar Communist Party . In 1950 the city of Saarbrücken dismissed him for political reasons, whereupon - to the displeasure of his party - he sued the city. After a party order process , Detjen was finally expelled from the KP.

In the following years Detjen was involved in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and stood for the German Peace Union in local elections.

literature

• Detjen, Heinrich . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .