Adolf Heidenreich

Adolf Heidenreich (born September 21, 1897 in Varel ; † July 27, 1958 there ) was a German politician. From 1946 to 1948 and from 1949 until his death he was mayor of the city of Varel.

Life

After attending elementary school, Heidenreich completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He then worked as a carpenter and foreman. Between 1916 and 1918 he served as a soldier in the First World War.

His political career began in 1915 when he joined the SPD . From 1918 to 1933 he worked for the party and trade unions as a functionary. In 1927 he took on a political mandate for the first time in the city council of his hometown Varel until the party was banned in 1933. Heidenreich was arrested several times during the time of National Socialism . In 1933 he was called in to work in a labor camp in the peat bog, and in 1944 he was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp .

After the end of the war, he re-founded the SPD association in the Friesland district in 1945 . In 1946 he was elected the first freely elected mayor of the city of Varel and held the office with one interruption between 1948 and 1949 until his death in July 1958. He was also a member of the appointee and the elected district council of Friesland and a member of the appointee state parliament of Oldenburg . After the state of Lower Saxony was founded, he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1947 .

memory

In Varel, the Bürgermeister-Heidenreich-Strasse commemorates the achievements of the politician.

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.