August Hillebrand

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August Hillebrand (born December 17, 1888 in Hennersdorf , Grottkau district, † April 17, 1953 in Jessen or Lommatzsch ) was a German farmer and politician (DBP, then DStP).

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Hillebrand grew up as the son of a Catholic farming family in Silesia . After attending elementary school in Hennersdorf and a grammar school in Neisse , he temporarily went into civil service. In the First World War he fought as a first lieutenant and was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes. In 1919 he became a farmer in Hennersdorf. In the young Weimar Republic he helped found the German peasantry . In this he became a board member of the peasantry in Berlin . He was also the 2nd chairman of the Silesian Farmers' Union in Breslau .

For the German Peasant Party (DBP) and for the German State Party (DStP), Hillebrand was a member of the Reichstag in Berlin as a member of constituency 7 from 1928 to 1932 . In his biography, Rudolf Morsey quotes the later Federal President Heinrich Lübke , who supported Hillebrand's election campaign, the letter from a contemporary, according to which Hillebrand's re-election to the Reichstag in September 1930 cost the farmers' union “heavy money” and thus made him “the most expensive man in the Reichstag” the legislative period was from September 1930 to July 1932.

After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Hillebrand was removed from all offices by the National Socialists and placed under police supervision. After he had to flee his Silesian homeland from the Red Army at the end of the war in 1945 , Hillebrand settled in Jessen / Lommatzsch.

At the same time Hillebrand joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Soviet occupation zone . As the founder of the CDU local association in Lommatzsch and co-founder of the CDU in Saxony, he became one of the most important Christian-Democratic politicians in the young GDR . Between September and December 1947 and from September 1948 to April 1952, Hillebrand was a member of the CDU's executive board. From March 1950 to April 1953, he headed the Committee for Agriculture and Forestry on the same body. From June 1950 to July 1952, Hillebrand was also a member of the CDU regional executive committee in Saxony and from December 1951 to August 1952 he was deputy regional chairman. From March 1948 until his death in 1953 he was a member of the People's Council or People's Chamber of the GDR as a member. During this time he was particularly committed to supporting farmers in the GDR who were expelled from the former German eastern regions and giving them settlement land in the GDR.

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  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the handbook of the Reichstag 1928. Year of death according to CDU: Political Yearbook of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany , 1953. P. 185.
  2. ^ Rudolf Morsey: Heinrich Lübke , 1996. P. 62.

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SURNAME Hillebrand, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (DBP, DStP), MdR, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennersdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1953
Place of death Jessen (Elster) or Lommatzsch