Ernst Niedorff

Ernst Heinrich Niedorff (born January 12, 1910 in Hamburg ; † October 2, 1969 there ) was a German politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

Life

After attending elementary school, Ernst Niedorff completed a three-year apprenticeship as an insurance salesman and attended insurance college . From 1927 he was employed by the insurance broker Heinrich von Richthofen, who ran a multiple general agency. In 1953 he took over the company, which still exists in Groß Borstel today , as the company's owner.

Niedorff was politically active in the SPD . From 1949 to 1966 he was a member of the district committee (from 1961: district assembly ) in the Hamburg-Nord district and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there. In the district assembly, he advocated building a sports stadium for 15,000 spectators north of City Nord on the S-Bahn . This, but also other sports facilities, are particularly necessary for the Barmbeck clubs . From 1957 to 1966 it was also part of the Hamburg parliamenton. There he belonged consistently to the committee for district administration, the committee for town planning, building and housing (until 1961: committee for the implementation plans, building and housing), the sports committee and the tax committee as well as temporarily the committee for the outpatient industry and the committee for Port and shipping.

In the SPD, Niedorff was the cashier of the Hamburg-Nord district association. His refusal in March 1958 to sign the district association's treasury report because of irregularities exposed a scandal surrounding the district secretary Bernhard Musall. The two members of the Bundestag, Hellmut Kalbitzer and Helmut Schmidt , who was also district chairman of the SPD in the Hamburg-Nord district at the time, were also involved in this complex : In order to maintain his post as district secretary, Musall threatened to publish irregularities. On the one hand, with the knowledge and consent of Kalbitzer, who was also chairman of the New Society close to the SPD , Musall falsified accounts of the New Society for seminars that had not taken place in order to receive subsidies from the Federal Center for Homeland Service . On the other hand, Schmidt was accused of having used some 60,000 DM donations he had raised to finance his parliamentary office in Bonn instead of transferring them to the regional association of the SPD . Despite considerable unrest in the SPD, which culminated in demands for Helmut Schmidt to resign, the affair only had consequences for Musall, who was dismissed without notice on May 14, 1958 and expelled from the SPD on May 14, 1958, after he was also proven to have had personal enrichment. The fact that Kalbitzer knew or even approved of the counterfeit accounts by Musall could not be proven by an internal committee of inquiry under the leadership of the member of parliament Joachim Kleist and Schmidt's handling of the donation was permissible according to the legal situation at the time, it only displeased the state executive, which gladly collected the money itself would have.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Source : Database of Members of the Hamburg Parliament, as of September 3, 2018. OTRS-Ticket = Ticket: 2018090310008473 .
2. ↑ “New sports stadium required for City Nord” , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from November 15, 1963, accessed on September 5, 2018.
3. ↑ Christel Oldenburg , Tradition and Modernity - The Hamburg SPD from 1950 to 1966 , Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2009, also in 2008 dissertation at the University of Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-8258-1970-5 , page 360 ​​ff.
4. ↑ Christel Oldenburg, Tradition and Modernity - The Hamburg SPD from 1950 to 1966 , Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2009, also in 2008 dissertation at the University of Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-8258-1970-5 , page 368 f.