Heinz Zscherpe

Heinz Zscherpe (born May 27, 1917 in Dresden , † September 17, 1959 in Salzhausen ) was a Lower Saxony politician of the KPD .

Life

Zscherpe attended elementary school from 1925 to 1933. As a teenager he came into contact with the labor movement through sports and youth organizations . From 1934 he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter . After graduation, he was an intern from 1937 at the Technical University in Dresden, parallel to his work as a machine fitter. He then became a technical employee. During the Nazi era he took part in the resistance activities of an illegal anti-fascist youth group. In 1940 he moved to Braunschweig and was transferred from the company Mühlenbau und Industrie AG (MIAG) Dresden to the main factory in Braunschweig.

In July 1945 he was elected to the works council of MIAG Braunschweig and he participated in the rebuilding of the unions. In the same year he became a member of the KPD, and in 1946 chairman of the KPD district leadership in Braunschweig and first secretary of the KPD state leadership in Lower Saxony since February 1951.

For the KPD, Zscherpe was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in the 2nd and 3rd electoral periods from May 6, 1951 to May 5, 1959. Despite his immunity as a member of the state parliament, he was on the day of the KPD ban on August 17, 1956 by the Lower Saxony news police arrested. This led the Hanover public prosecutor to initiate investigations into disregarding parliamentary immunity against several officials.

Zscherpe was married twice and had four children.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 417.

Web links

• KP ban: Meeting point at the employment office in: Der Spiegel from August 29, 1956

Individual evidence

1. ^ Addendum to the ban on KP in the Spiegel from October 17, 1956