August Heine (politician, 1897)

August Heine (right) with the Mayor of Kiel Ida Hinz (1971)

August Heine (born July 20, 1897 in Hamburg , † February 18, 1983 in Lübeck ) was a German elementary school teacher, school councilor and local politician of the SPD.

Life

August Heine grew up in Hamburg and Ratzeburg . After passing the teacher training seminar and his military service in the First World War, he entered the school service of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein and got his first teaching position on the Georgsberg in front of Ratzeburg. From there he was transferred to Altona, where he became involved in professional politics as a social democrat and in 1929 became the rector of an elementary school. His removal from office as rector took place in 1933 in the course of the Gleichschaltung . From 1937 to 1939 he was accepted into the Hamburg school service under the Greater Hamburg Law and continued to work as a teacher with restrictions. During World War II he was in 1939 for the Wehrmacht confiscated and was last detained in Italy 1945th Heine returned to Hamburg in 1945, took over the rectorate of a school and became politically active again, including as chairman of a denazification committee . On December 1, 1947, he was appointed to the school board in Schleswig-Holstein and switched to school supervision. He moved to Neumünster and trained new teachers in emergency courses. On October 1, 1948, he was appointed school construction assistant to the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education in Kiel . On April 1, 1952, he became a school councilor in Lübeck, where he retired as Senate Director in 1962.

politics

Heine became a member of the SPD in 1920 . From 1956 to 1962, Heine was district chairman of the SPD in Lübeck and second chairman of the state SPD Schleswig-Holstein . He was a member of the Lübeck citizenship from 1962 to 1976. From 1962 to 1970 he was the city's senator and from 1970 to 1974 its city ​​president .

Honors

• Freiherr vom Stein Medal (1966)
• Honor plaque of the Senate (1970 and 1974)
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1971)

literature

• 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, pp. 108/109

Web links

• Personnel card and personnel sheet from August Heine in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)