Eduard Heintz

Grave in the north cemetery in Jena

Eduard Heintz (born March 26, 1881 in Stützerbach ; † November 22, 1974 in Jena ) was a German works council chairman.

Life

He had been with Jenaer Glas Schott & Gen. from April 16, 1895 . First employed in Jena as a single carrier , then as a glassmaker and pipe puller in all of the works. Before that he was already employed in the hut during his school days with his father Theodor Heintz, who was also a glassmaker and pipe maker. In 1912/13 he started with his brother Albert Heintz (see list of honorary citizens of Jena ) and many of his sports friends of the TSGM - gymnastics, sports and music association "Glaswerk" the project "Sports facility Otto-Schott-Platz " on the Jenaer Organize forest. He was born the seventh child after his brother Albert. His sister lived in Stützerbach and one brother was killed in Siberia during World War I. From 1920 to 1933 he was chairman of the works council at Schott. From 1922 to 1933 he was an alderman of the Jena city council. In 1933 he was removed from all his offices by the NSDAP. In the same year he married Emma Heintz (née Schulze) for the second time . His first marriage to Martha, which ended in divorce, resulted in his son Gustav.

In the course of the action grid (sometimes also called action thunderstorm), after the assassination attempt on Hitler, he was arrested by the Gestapo as an SPD functionary and opponent of the regime in August 1944 and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp .

From 1946 to 1952 he was the first deputy chairman in the Jena city council.

Due to his services as a shop steward and representative of the city of Jena , he became an honorary citizen on November 16, 1946 (see list of honorary citizens of the city ).

literature

Publication "further upwards in the 51st business year" by the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.

Jena Lexicon on City History "p.277

personal data
SURNAME	Heintz, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German works council chairman
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stützerbach
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1974
Place of death	Jena