August Griese
August Griese (born November 14, 1895 in Gohfeld -Melbergen, † July 7, 1962 in Herford ) was a German politician ( SPD ). In 1946 he was elected by all parties to the district administrator of the Herford district, which existed until 1968 . He was also elected to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1950, to which he belonged until his death.
Life
Griese attended elementary school and worked first as a carpenter and later as a foreman . From 1919 to 1933 he was a member of the Gohfeld -Mennighüffen Office. In his work as managing director and legal secretary in the German Woodworkers Association from 1924 to 1933, he represented the members personally before the labor court. As unemployment in Germany in 1930 during the Great Depression at the height of standing, August developed Griese would get his ideas about how young unemployed woodworkers from the street. He organized further training and employment measures , for example a so-called polishing course , which taught how high-quality, polished furniture could be manufactured. Under his guidance, other groups of young unemployed tore down salt pans in Bad Oeynhausen or built gliders.
politics
Griese had joined the SPD in 1919. After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Griese was dismissed from all offices as an active trade unionist and social democrat and imprisoned for resistance in the same year, but later dismissed. In 1944 he was arrested and imprisoned for the second time due to the officers' revolt after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 . After the war he was one of the first citizens to get involved in a new political beginning. On May 23, 1945 he was the mayor of the Löhne office until 1946 . From 1946 Griese was a member of the district council and district administrator of the Herford district at that time. On July 5, 1950, he was elected to the new state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and remained in this position through several re-elections until his death on July 7, 1962. Griese was the last Prussian (when he took office, Prussia was not formally dissolved) and at the same time the first North Rhine-Westphalian district administrator in the Herford district. In all three election periods in which he was a member of the state parliament, he was directly elected in constituency 143 Herford-Land-West.
Honors
Since 1972 the district vocational school of the Herford district in Löhne has been called August-Griese-Schule or August-Griese-Berufskolleg . In the Katzenholz in Spenge an inscription as well as the Landratsweg commemorates August Griese. A street in the town of Enger is named after him.
literature
- 60 Years of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia - The State and its Members , Düsseldorf, 2006, p. 293.
Web links
August Griese at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
Franz Haß | Philipp von Borries | Georg von Borrries senior | Rudolf von Borries | Georg von Borries jun. | Franz von Borries | Erich Hartmann | Friedrich Kleim | Friedrich von Laer | August Griese | Ernst Albrecht | Siegfried Moning | Gerhard Wattenberg | Hans-Georg Kluge | Lieselore Curländer | Christian Manz | Jürgen Müller
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griese, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gohfeld -Melbergen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1962 |
| Place of death | Herford |