Clemens Kraienhorst

Clemens Kraienhorst (born May 25, 1905 in Bottrop ; † May 17, 1989 ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( KPD , DKP ). For many years he was councilor of the city of Bottrop and in 1954 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for a short time .

Life

Clemens Kraienhorst attended elementary school and then worked as a miner . He became a union member early on and joined the KPD in 1929. In 1933 he became chairman of the KPD Bottrop. After the seizure of power by the Nazis Kraienhorst was persecuted for his political beliefs. He was imprisoned for some time in the Esterwegen concentration camp , later he was also temporarily imprisoned for political reasons.

After the Second World War , Kraienhorst was involved in the founding of the KPD in Bottrop. He was elected to the Bottrop City Council in 1948 . For a short time he was also a member of the state parliament. On March 9, 1954, he moved up for the KPD in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament and held the mandate until the end of the second electoral period on July 4, 1954. Kraienhorst was a member of the Bottrop City Council until the KPD was banned in 1956. After the party was banned, Kraienhorst was again imprisoned for a few months in Germany for his political work.

Since the post-war period, Kraienhorst became involved in the union again and became a member of IG Bergbau und Energie , from which he was expelled between November 1951 and January 1953, and then finally on October 27, 1959 "for behavior that was harmful to the union". Kraienhorst was chairman of the general works council of Hibernia AG from 1946 to 1950 and chairman of the works council of the Rheinbaben colliery in Bottrop from 1946 to 1961 , even after he was expelled from IG Bergbau-Energie, as he was able to prevail over the union candidates in the works council elections.

From 1962 Kraienhorst was temporarily re-elected to the city council as a non-party, and in 1968 he led the newly founded DKP in the Bottrop town hall. With interruptions, Kraienhorst was represented in the city council until 1982.

In 2001 the Clemens-Kraienhorst-Straße in Bottrop was named after him.

literature

• Heinz Stuckmann: “Are you against atomic death?” In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1961
• Jörg Wingold: 100 years of Clemens Kraienhorst - memory of a communist . In: Our Time , June 3, 2005
• Erika Runge : Bottroper Protocols, Clemens K. Works Council Chairman, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1968, 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41988-5 .
• Markus Günther : It doesn't matter what we say, but who we are. About Clemens Kraienhorst. In model book. Small gallery of humanity. Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2019, ISBN 978-3-942094-95-5 .

Web links

Clemens Kraienhorst at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} How the DKP holds up in the Bottrop town hall . In: Spiegel Online , September 24, 2004, accessed March 28, 2010
2. ↑ Heinz Stuckmann: “Are you against atomic death?” In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1961
3. ↑ Roland Kirbach: For the little people . In: Die Zeit , No. 31/1991
4. ↑ Chronicle 1970 to 2002 , p. 13  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) dkp-bottrop.de (accessed on March 28, 2010)