Eugen Holdinghausen

Eugen Holdinghausen

Eugen Holdinghausen (born May 6, 1890 in Niederschelderhütte ; † July 10, 1937 in Riesa ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Holdinghausen attended elementary school in Niederschelderhütte from 1896 to 1904. In 1904 he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, in 1905 he changed his subject and began an apprenticeship as a carpenter, which he completed in 1908. He then worked as a carpenter until 1910. He then belonged to the Imperial Navy . As a member of the East Asian Naval Detachment , he was stationed in Tsingtau , Tientsin and Beijing .

From 1914 to 1930 Holdinghausen worked in the iron industry as a smelter, foreman and foreman. In 1918 he married. In 1925 Holdinghausen joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In the following years he began to campaign increasingly publicly for the National Socialist Party. In 1929 he became a local councilor in Gröditz .

In the general election of September 1930 Holdinghausen was a candidate of his party for the constituency 29 (Leipzig) in the Reichstag elected. In the elections of July 1932 Holdinghausen was re-elected, this time as a candidate for the constituency 28 (Dresden-Bautzen). He then represented this - confirmed in the elections of November 1932 and March 1933 - until his death in 1937. From 1932, Holdinghausen was also a member of the district assembly and the finance committee as well as the district committee of the Grossenhain administration .

In March Holdinghausen voted in favor of the Enabling Act , which de facto meant the Reichstag's self-disempowerment by transferring legislative power to the government and thus uniting the legislature and the executive in their hands.

On April 4, 1933 Holdinghausen was appointed provisional lord mayor of his hometown Riesa . He held this office until August 18, 1933. Since 1935 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Riesa electricity works. Holdinghausen was NSDAP district leader for Grossenhain until his death .

Web links

• Eugen Holdinghausen in the database of members of the Reichstag