Bernhard Eckholt

Bernhard Eckholt (born November 2, 1887 in Brokstreek , Cloppenburg district ; † March 12, 1949 in Cloppenburg ) was a German farmer and politician ( center , NSDAP ). From 1922 to 1930 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament and from 1938 to 1940 mayor of the Garrel community .

Life

Third from the left, central parliamentary group in the Oldenburg state parliament

Eckholt was born the son of a railroad man. He first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and later ran a farm in Uptloh near Essen .

Eckholt belonged to the Center Party and at the end of 1922 moved to the Oldenburg state parliament for Arthur Raschke , who had left the parliament. In Parliament he was consistently a member of the Petitions Committee. On November 10, 1930, he resigned from his state parliament mandate for professional reasons; Heinrich Fröhle took over the seat . Afterwards Eckholt was managing director of the branch of the employment office in Cloppenburg.

On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP. From 1938 to 1940 he was Mayor of Garrel.

Bernhard Eckholt was married and had no children.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 97.