Albert Henze (politician)

Johann Martin Albert Henze (born July 16, 1873 in Godelheim , † April 13, 1944 in Lübeck ) was a German politician and social democratic senator from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Henze attended schools in Wohlsdorf , Wandsbek , Barmbeck and Neumünster . He then joined as an apprentice in the fitter of the railway workshop one in Neumünster.

In 1903 Henze came to Ewers & Co. in Fackenburger Allee as a machine fitter . Besides Officially he was from 1905 Managing Director of the Consumer Association . In 1906 he was permanently employed there as such .

In 1913 Henze was elected to the Lübeck citizenship and was to be a member of the citizens' committee from 1916 to 1918 .

As a civil deputy in the tax authorities , member of the board of directors of the penal institutions and of the Lübeck pension office , he acquired a good knowledge of the Lübeck administrative apparatus .

Under the chairmanship of the deputy spokesman Hermann Eschenburg , the citizenship elected five new senators on March 31, 1919 after the republican change due to the new constitution. A 16-member commission formed for the purpose of submitting proposals had agreed on Paul Hoff (soc.) For the retiring Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Henze (soc.) For the already retired Johann Georg Eschenburg , Carl Dimpker (dem.) For the to propose Eduard Rabe who had already left , Paul Löwigt for the deceased Emil Possehl and Fritz Mehrlein (soc.) for Eduard Friedrich Ewers who had left . In the subsequent election made by the citizens, they were elected senators with 74, 74, 75, 74 and 72 votes.

Until he was brought into line by the National Socialists in March 1933, he remained the city's senator. He worked primarily in the tax authorities and the accounting office. He also worked for the State Supply Office and for the Strecknitz Sanatorium .

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No.
• Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences ; Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986, pp. 79-82 (on 1933) ISBN 3-7950-0452-7
• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 114 ff

Web links

• Biography of Albert Henze (politician) . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
2. ^ The newly elected members of the Senate. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 14, edition of April 13, 1919, pp. 53-54.