Alexander Hirschfeld

This article deals with the politician Alexander Hirschfeld. For the general see Alexander Adolf von Hirschfeld .

Alexander Hirschfeld (born February 28, 1892 in Bergisch Neukirchen ; † September 21, 1974 ) was a German politician and administrative officer ( DNVP , EVD , NSDAP , DKP-DRP or national rights , FDP ).

Life and work

Alexander Hirschfeld, who was of Protestant faith, attended the Oberrealschule and the University for Municipal Administration in Düsseldorf, where he received the administrative diploma. From 1920 to 1925 he was a research assistant at the office and city of Lippspringe. From 1946 he was a part-time teacher at the South Westphalian municipal administration and savings bank school in Hagen. He worked as the head of the branch in Siegen / Weidenau. From 1939 to 1943 he was a member of the administrative board of Landesbank Westfalen. Hirschfeld participated in both world wars.

politics

Before 1933, Alexander Hirschfeld was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) and the EVD . From 1928 to 1934 he was a member of the board of the Arnsberg district assembly in the Westphalia regional assembly. From 1925 to 1946 he was the mayor of Weidenau / Sieg. From 1937 to 1945 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1938 he was re-elected for a further twelve years at the suggestion of the NSDAP district leader. The district leader declared that he knew that Hirschfeld “felt inside that one had to yearn for National Socialism with all my heart”, and the elected man stated that he was happy that, despite all the appreciation, he was “on the day of the Führer’s birthday” had been re-elected.

In 1947 he became a member of the DKP-DRP , whose district chairman in Siegen he had been since 1948. When large parts of the DKP-DRP, including the Lower Saxony state association under Adolf von Thadden , merged with the National Democratic Party to form the German Reich Party in January 1950 , Hirschfeld belonged to the group around party chairman Hermann Klingspor , which called the party “National Rights “Continued. As part of an electoral alliance with the FDP, Hirschfeld, like other NR members, was a candidate on the FDP list in 1950 for the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . Initially not elected, he moved to the state parliament on June 11, 1951 for Hanns Linhardt, who had left the FDP . Since November 1952 he was also a member of the district council of the Siegen district . After the final collapse of the national right, he joined the FDP in January 1954 and became its district and parliamentary group chairman in September of that year. In the same year he was also re-elected to the state parliament. From 1955 he was a board member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Association of Cities. In the state elections in 1958, he initially missed re-election to the state parliament, but replaced Alfred Ollesch , who had been elected to the German Bundestag , on September 29, 1961 . At the end of the 1962 electoral term, he finally resigned from the state parliament. After he no longer ran as district chairman of the FDP in Siegen in 1963, he was elected honorary chairman.

Web links

• Alexander Hirschfeld at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Regional dictionary of persons, article Alexander Hirschfeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Regionales Personenlexikon, article Robert Ochsenfeld .
2. ↑ See: Regionales Personenlexikon, article Alexander Hirschfeld .