Ernst Hilzheimer

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Ernst Alfred Max Hilzheimer (born April 8, 1901 in Stralsund ; † April 9, 1986 in Rostock ) was a politician and co-founder of the LDPD in Rostock.

Life

Ernst Hilzheimer was the son of the trained farmer and gardener Ernst Hilzheimer and his wife Ida, née Reppin. His father ran a market gardening and seed trade in Stralsund's Ossenreyerstraße 41. In 1920 Hilzheimer finished high school in Stralsund with the Abitur and began studying chemistry at the University of Greifswald . There he became a member of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia in 1920 . In 1923 he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In order to be able to finance his studies in the economically difficult inflationary years, Hilzheimer was forced to earn money through night shifts in a bank and as a working student in the chemical laboratory of the AEG. In February 1928 he finished his studies with a diploma in chemistry and in May 1928 he was awarded a PhD with his dissertation on complex compounds of trivalent vanadium at the University of Berlin. phil. doctorate in order to take up a position as an employee of the Bergakademie Clausthal in July of the same year . In 1929 he worked as an industrial mechanic in the Consolidierte Alkaliwerke in Westeregeln , where he was fired in 1930. Then he retrained to become a druggist and moved back to Berlin in 1932. There he joined the NSDAP in 1932 (member no. 1.102.881). In 1933 he became the head of the gas and air protection department in Stralsund. In November 1933 Hilzheimer worked as a research assistant in the chemical department of the Physiological Institute of the University of Göttingen . In 1934 he was dismissed because of his Jewish origin (" first degree half-breed ").

At the end of 1934 he bought the Lauremberg drugstore in Rostock with the support of friends. In 1943 it was closed by the authorities and Hilzheimer was drafted into the Todt Organization . He worked there in the Kyffhäuser Task Force. In 1944 Hilzheimer was arrested for political reasons and imprisoned in various labor camps ( Wolmirsleben , Neustaßfurt, Rothenförde near Staßfurt).

After his liberation in April 1945 Hilzheimer returned to Rostock and took over the provisional management of the Mecklenburg margarine factory A. Hoyer and was also active in the denazification commission in Rostock. In the same year he was one of the founding members of the local association of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany . In the LDPD he subsequently held various offices, such as the district chairman, later he was state chairman and was elected city councilor for finances in 1947. Hilzheimer was a member of the National Council of the National Front and a member of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters.

In 1946 Hilzheimer married Ursula Schmidt, with whom he had two children.

In addition to his party offices, Ernst Hilzheimer was active in several economic bodies. He was a member of the state parliament and temporarily vice-president of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and later a member of the GDR regional chamber .

In 1952 Ernst Hilzheimer became head of a part of the VEB Buna-Werke in Schkopau , where he worked until his retirement in 1967. In 1969 he moved back to Rostock, where he continued to work for the LDPD.

Honors in the GDR

After his death on April 3, 1987, a section of Paulstraße in Rostocker Steintor-Vorstadt was renamed Ernst-Hilzheimer-Straße . In 1991, after the peaceful revolution in the GDR , this street was given its historic name again. Hilzheimer was the bearer of several orders of the GDR, such as the Patriotic Order of Merit (in gold 1971), the Johannes R. Becher Medal and the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold . On October 6, 1981, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, his services for the city were honored with the honor of being an honorary citizen of Rostock .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 338-339.
personal data
SURNAME Hilzheimer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilzheimer, Ernst Alfred Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD), co-founder of the LDPD in Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1986
Place of death Rostock