August Josef Hagemann

August Josef Hagemann

August Josef Hagemann (born September 26, 1875 in Hörstel , † November 15, 1950 in Osnabrück ) was a German politician ( MdR , MdL in Prussia) of the Center Party .

Life and work

The son of a hayman learned the locksmith trade in Hopsten . As a journeyman he worked a. a. in Düsseldorf, Bonn, Cologne, Boppard and Mainz. From 1900 to spring 1908 Hagemann was employed as a fitter at the Osnabrück railway workshop. Early on in the Catholic Worker movement active, he graduated in Mönchengladbach at the " People's Association for Catholic Germany " a training course in order then from 1908 in Osnabrück as a professional worker secretary , the management of the Osnabrück Diocese Association of Catholic workers' associations and also the leadership of the Workers Secretariat of the Christian trade unions to take over. Part-time he worked as party secretary of the Catholic Center Party. He worked as a workers secretary until April 1923, but then had to give up this position because of the excessive strain caused by his political work, especially since this activity could no longer secure the livelihood of his family during the inflationary period . In war only convened twice in the short term, the number of members of the Catholic workers' associations was not least by the commitment Hagemann's government district increased. At a meeting in Osnabrück in October 1920, Hagemann was able to announce an increase from 4514 to 5509 members. Despite resigning from his full-time job for the Catholic workers 'associations, he continued to function as workers' secretary until 1927.

Having become an accomplished specialist in the social security system through his previous employment , Hagemann found employment in the regional council in 1923 as an employee of the middle price inspection office through the mediation of the Osnabrück District President Adolf Sonnenschein (1886-1965). In January 1927, Hagemann, meanwhile deputy chairman and head of the middle price inspection office at the government in Osnabrück, was appointed after the dissolution of this authority as an unskilled worker in the higher administrative service in the upper insurance office and on July 1, 1927 as a councilor in the regional council.

In addition, from 1920 to 1926 he held the office of chairman of the "German Trade Union Federation" ( DGB ) Osnabrück, with which he headed the umbrella organization of the city's Christian-national trade union groups. The trade unionist also worked from 1922 to 1928 as deputy chairman and from 1929 as chairman of the committee of the Hanover State Insurance Company. The National Socialist seizure of power at the end of March 1933 resulted in Hagemann being dismissed from civil service without being entitled to a pension due to the law to restore the civil service. With a paid life insurance policy, he bought into a small Osnabrück cigar factory where he worked during the Third Reich . After the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) on July 20, 1944 , Josef Hagemann was imprisoned for eight days in Osnabrück. In the course of reparation, he was reappointed in 1946 as a government councilor with pension rights to the Osnabrück regional council. In early 1950 he suffered a stroke that made him unable to work.

Political activity until 1933

As early as 1909 to 1919 Hagemann held the position of mayor (= city council) in Osnabrück, where he played a key role in the implementation of the first urban social aid measures for the workers as a member of numerous municipal welfare commissions. During the time of the fall of the monarchy, he played an active role in ensuring that the Catholic workforce took an active part in the construction of the new republic. In addition to calls for this in the press, he was responsible for the establishment of the workers' council at the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein in Georgsmarienhütte with the participation of the Christian workers. In January 1919, Hagemann entered the Weimar National Assembly as a representative of the Catholic workforce on the Weser-Ems central constituency list . For the Reichstag election in 1920, however, at the instigation of the Emsland Center Party, he was downgraded to third place on the list in favor of the Emsland farmer a Theodor Pennemann (1861–1932) in the Weser-Ems constituency. The replacement of Hagemann by a large farmer even triggered the establishment of a left-wing Catholic splinter party in the Lingen area. Therefore, the Osnabrück state delegate and master craftsman Franz Langewand (1871-1952) was induced to resign his mandate in the constituent Prussian state assembly in order to compensate for the dissatisfaction among small farmers and workers with a mandate for Hagemann. In 1920, Hagemann succeeded him in the first Prussian state parliament, still called the state assembly, to which he was subsequently re-elected until 1933. From August 1921 to August 1922 Hagemann was also a member of the Reichstag as a replacement for the deceased Center Reichstag representative Eduard Burlage (1857-1921). However, he resigned his mandate after a year in order to enable the craftsmen to represent their interests within the center group through master locksmith Arthur Raschke (1883–1967). Hagemann was very involved in the state parliament for a lease protection ordinance in favor of small farmers and hiring workers and for their other concerns. It is largely thanks to Hagemann's commitment that the Catholic workers and the small farmers of the Emsland remained largely loyal to the center even in the final phase of the Weimar Republic. In June 1931, the government council was elected as an assessor on the board of the Hanover Center Party. In the same function he belonged to the executive committee of the Osnabrück Center Party (at least early 1933). During the time of the Third Reich, Hagemann was busy securing his existence. He was not active in the NSDAP or its associations.

Political activity after 1945

After liberation from National Socialism, after initially sympathizing with the goals of the CDU, he was one of the re-founders of the Center Party in the Osnabrück administrative district, as he refused to work with former Nazis and their supporters. In May 1946, the Hagemann party elected 2nd chairman in the Osnabrück district. For the German Center Party, he was the editor of its Lower Saxony party newspaper "The Center in Lower Saxony". Hagemann was a meeting speaker for the party and campaigned for the Emsland Plan .

literature

• German Biographical Archive NF Microfiche No. 409 pp. 303–304.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries . 8th edition, Leipzig 1922, p. 560.
• Ingo duration / Christoph Bertels / CDU Osnabrück-Stadt (ed.): 50 years CDU Osnabrück 1945-1995 . Osnabrück 1995, p. 13.
• Handbook of the constituent German national assembly Weimar 1919. Biographical notes and pictures . Edited by the Bureau des Reichstag, Berlin undated, p. 173.
• Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 2nd electoral term (from 1925 onwards) . Edited by the office of the Prussian state parliament, edited by E. Kienast, Berlin 1925, p. 264.
• Christof Haverkamp: The development of the Emsland in the 20th century as an example of state regional economic development . Edited by the Emsland landscape (= Emsland / Bentheim. Contributions to the story, Vol. 7), Sögel 1991, pp. 42, 49, 267.
• Helmut Lensing, Art. Hagemann, Josef, in: Emsländische Geschichte , Volume 7. Ed. By the Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte, Dohren 1998, pp. 142–147.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. A biographical index (= publication by the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties in Bonn), Düsseldorf 1995, p. 431.
• Gerd Steinwascher, Art. Hagemann, Joseph, in: Rainer Hehemann (arr.): Biographical manual for the history of the Osnabrück region . Edited by the Landschaftsverband Osnabrück, Bramsche 1990, p. 119.
• Franz-Josef Wissing (editor): Hörstel - yesterday and today - Or how a peasantry became a city. Home register of the village of Hörstel until the city became a town. Edited by the Heimatverein Hörstel, Hörstel o. J., pp. 136–137.

Web links

• August Josef Hagemann in the database of members of the Reichstag