Heinrich Lorenz (politician, 1870)

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Heinrich Lorenz (born November 7, 1870 in Liekwegen , † February 3, 1947 in Stadthagen ) was a social democratic politician and was in front of the state government of Schaumburg-Lippe several times during the Weimar Republic .

Life

Lorenz was born in Liekwegen (today the municipality of Nienstädt ) and worked as a glassmaker until 1901 . He joined the SPD in 1889 and was a co-founder of the party in Stadthagen in 1892. Since 1901 he ran an inn there. This became one of the party's important communication centers in the city. Between 1907 and 1918 Lorenz was a city councilor. Then he was until 1931 in the chairman of the city council (word holder) in Stadthagen.

As early as 1906, he was initially the only Social Democrat in the Schaumburg-Lippe state parliament. He held this mandate uninterruptedly until 1922. After a few years of interruption, he was a member of the state parliament again from 1925 to 1927 and in 1928 and 1931. Various applications for a seat in the Reichstag between 1919 and 1930 were unsuccessful.

During the November Revolution , Heinrich Lorenz was chairman of the People's and Soldiers' Council in Stadthagen, and some time later of all of Schaumburg-Lippe. At first he was against the prince's abdication, but finally bowed to pressure from Bielefeld, the regional center of the SPD. Prince Adolf II zu Schaumburg-Lippe renounced his throne on November 15, 1918 as one of the last remaining monarchs in Germany . The government was taken over for the "federal state of Schaumburg-Lippe until the final reorganization of the situation by the workers and soldiers' council in Bückeburg" .

Between December 1918 and March 1919, Lorenz was then chairman of the regional council, that is to say the regional government of Schaumburg-Lippe based in Bückeburg . He presided over a coalition of the SPD and DDP . After that he was part of the state government. From 1927 he was then "State Councilor" (permanent chairman of the state government, corresponded to the function of Prime Minister) of Schaumburg-Lippe. This government was based on a social-liberal coalition. After the new elections in 1928, the SPD became the majority with over 49%, but Lorenz formed a government that included the DDP and DNVP . Even after the 1931 elections, the SPD remained significantly stronger than the NSDAP (26.9%) with over 44% . Lorenz formed a government with the representative of the state party (Bretthauer). After the seizure of power of the National Socialists this government came on March 7, 1933. under protest and their functions from the Reich governor of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe Alfred Meyer accepted.

After the liberation he belonged again to the appointed state government of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1945 to 1946.

literature

  • Hubert Höing: Lorenz, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm , in: Weingarten, Henrik (ed.): Schaumburger Profiles; Part 2:, Vol. 73, Bielefeld 2016 (Schaumburger Studies), pp. 142–145.
  • Dieter Brosius: From the monarchy to the republic. The foundation of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe. in: Schaumburg-Lippische Mitteilungen 19 (1968), pp. 47-60.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 127.

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SURNAME Lorenz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenz, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, State Councilor of Schaumburg-Lippe (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Liekwegen
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1947
Place of death Stadthagen