Franz Heinen

Franz Heinen (born April 28, 1887 in Krefeld , † September 22, 1963 in Bonn ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

The trained businessman Heinen worked as an independent businessman in Bonn from 1918. He ran a medical and surgical wholesale business. During the Nazi era he was arrested four times and had to temporarily close his business. In 1954 he received the honorary title of city elder.

politics

Heinen joined the SPD and was a city councilor in Bonn from 1919 to 1929. After the Second World War he took part in the reconstruction of the SPD, whose Bonn district chairman and deputy district chairman on the Middle Rhine he was. From December 1945 to June 1946 he was a member of the Provincial Council for the North Rhine Province. He was again a city councilor in Bonn from 1946 to 1951 and also mayor there in 1948.

He was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1946 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1954. The Landtag elected him to the Federal Assembly in 1949 , 1954 and 1959 . He was also a member of the Economic Council from 1948 to 1949 . From July 24, 1953, when he replaced the late Erik Nölting , he was a member of the Bundestag for a few weeks until the end of the first legislative term .

Web links

Franz Heinen at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia