Clemens Hesemann

Clemens Hesemann (born March 18, 1897 in Handrup / Lingen district ; † December 26, 1981 there ), Roman Catholic, was a German politician ( ZENTRUM , CDU ) and agricultural functionary.

Life and work

After primary school in Handrup, the farmer's son attended the agricultural school in Freckenhorst near Warendorf . From 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War; until 1920 he was a prisoner of war. From 1922 to 1933 he acted as chairman of the local agricultural association Handrup. From 1925 he became more involved in the "Emsland Farmers' Association", which was constituted in 1920, where he strengthened the dominant center wing.

Hesemann was appointed chairman of the Lingen district farmers' association as early as 1945, when the "Vereinigung des Emsländischen Landvolks" (VEL) was founded in early 1947 as its chairman. This also made him a member of the board of the Lower Saxony rural people. The Handruper kept the leadership of the association of the Emsland rural people until 1969. He held numerous honorary posts in the agricultural sector. For example, he has been a member of the board of the Weser-Ems Chamber of Agriculture in Oldenburg since 1948, has been chairman of the board of trustees for economic advice in the Lingen district since 1949 and chief agricultural judge at the Senate for agricultural matters in Cologne and at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe. In 1951 he joined the board of directors of Emsland-GmbH, which was responsible for the implementation of the Emsland plan .

Political party

Hesemann was an active member of the German Center Party . As a central speaker, he fought the agitation of the rural people's parties and the NSDAP against the Weimar Republic. At the same time he criticized the demagogic battle of big farmers in the "Association of farmers and landowners in Lower Saxony" against the wasteland settlement plans Heuerleute , which earned him the enmity of the right-wing parties.

In 1933, Clemens Hesemann acted briefly as the successor to Gerhard Schwenne (1889–1947) from Lingen , who was dismissed as a teacher by the National Socialists after the March elections and who had to leave the region, as chairman of the Center Party in the Lingen district and as head of the Emsland Center Association, the governing body of Party in the four Emsland districts.

After the Second World War , he immediately rejoined the Center Party, which owned a nationwide stronghold in the Lingen district. He was one of the most prominent central politicians in the region.

Before the new district administrator was elected in December 1950, Hesemann joined the CDU. Thereupon the center refused to be re-elected, but four other center district assembly members Hesemann to the CDU followed. In the district election, there was therefore a stalemate between the CDU and the center / SPD, but the lot fell on the center candidate Hans Richter. For his party change, Hesemann received the top candidacy for the CDU in the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1951, which greatly weakened the center in the Lingen region.

MP

In 1925, Hesemann entered the Lingen district council on an agricultural list. In 1933, as in 1929, Hesemann joined the Lingen district committee for the center. In 1937 he resigned from this office.

Since 1946, Hesemann belonged again to the Lingen district council. 1949 ran on the center list for the German Bundestag , but won no mandate. He joined the CDU in 1951 and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for this party from 1951 to 1955, later he was a member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Bersenbrück - Lingen from 1957 to 1965 .

Public offices

During their advance in 1945, the British occupation forces appointed him mayor of Handrup for a few days.

Hesemann was for the center from 1947 to 1948 and 1950, this time with the votes of the center and CDU, district administrator of the Lingen district. With a few brief interruptions, Hesemann held the post of Lingen district administrator until 1957.

Honors

• 1965: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 158–159.
• (Andreas) Büscher: One year of work in the Lingen district party. In: The Center in Lower Saxony No. 7 from March 1, 1947.
• Rainer Hehemann (editor): Biographical handbook on the history of the Osnabrück region. Edited by the Landschaftsverband Osnabrück, Bramsche 1990, p. 132.
• Karl-Heinz Naßmacher: Parties in decline: re-establishment and decline of the peasant and bourgeois parties in Lower Saxony. (= Studies on Social Sciences, Vol. 86), Opladen 1989, p. 231.