Erich Meckel

Erich Meckel (born February 16, 1919 in Diez ; † May 28, 1981 in Bad Ems ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Meckel attended elementary school until 1933 and then completed a commercial apprenticeship, which he completed in 1936 with the assistant test. He did Reich labor service from 1937 , then took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was finally taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1948. From 1949 to 1950 he worked as a miner. He then worked as an employee for the census until 1951 and subsequently as a branch manager. In 1954 he got a job at the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate in Bad Ems. In addition to his professional activity, he volunteered in the workers' welfare , whose district board he was from 1967.

Meckel joined the SPD in 1956. From 1960 he was a member of the city council of Bad Ems and from 1964 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1964 he was elected to the district assembly of the Unterlahnkreis (since the regional reform in 1969 : Rhein-Lahn-Kreis ), where he also took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in 1971. In the state election in 1971 , he was elected to the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate via a list of the SPD . In the state parliament he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Viticulture and the Legal Committee. Due to the rulings of the Federal Constitutional Court and the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral examination court, he left parliament prematurely on December 12, 1972. The Federal Constitutional Court had declared the state election law to be partly unconstitutional.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 454–455.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfGE 34,81)