Adam Barthels

Adam Friedrich Barthels (born September 16, 1897 in Besse , † August 6, 1979 in Kassel ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and former member of the Advisory State Committee for Greater Hesse .

Adam Barthels was a farmer in Besse. From 1918 he was a member of the KPD and a member of the local executive committee. In 1933 he was convicted of “preparing to commit high treason” and was imprisoned in Hameln from October 1933 to June 1935. While in custody, he suffered health problems that prevented him from continuing to work in his previous occupation as a pit master in civil engineering. He worked in agriculture.

As a representative of the KPD Hessen , he was appointed by the American occupying power in 1946 to the advisory state committee for Greater Hessen, a predecessor of the Hessian state parliament , of which he was a member from February 26, 1946 to July 14, 1946. Then he withdrew from state politics.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 204 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• "... towards democracy" - The minutes of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946 - A documentation, edited by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl-Seibert, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , page 30
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 61.

Web links

• Barthels, Adam Friedrich. Hessian biography. (As of February 19, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).