Friedrich Dethlefs
Friedrich "Fiete" Dethlefs (born November 9, 1908 ; † December 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German businessman and former member of the Hamburg parliament for the SPD .
politics
Fiete Dethlefs began his political activity in the Hamburg KPD . Even during the Third Reich he took part in illegal meetings of former members of the Forbidden Party in order to make preparations for the "time after". Just like other members of the resistance against National Socialism in various groups. But attempts to found parties again just a few days after the end of the Second World War failed. Representatives of the British occupying power, which had moved into Hamburg, initially strictly forbade the establishment. In May 1945 , groups mainly from the left-wing political spectrum agreed to found a union.
In the Socialist Free Trade Union (SFG), members of the International Socialist League , Social Democrats, Communists and trade unionists united in the Hamburg Trade Union House . Under the chairmanship of the Social Democrat Walter Schmedemann , Friedrich Dethlefs was elected to the board for the communists in addition to Hans Ek . The SFG immediately had great success. After just a few weeks, applications for membership were received from 50,000 people. The occupying power viewed the stormy development with great concern and already forced the unified union to dissolve itself in June 1945 in order to allow only individual unions.
When the founding of the KPD was approved shortly afterwards, Dethlefs was one of the founding members. Friedrich Dettmann , who had been a member of Hamburg's citizenship before 1933 , became chairman of the Wasserkante district , which included Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . At first, the KPD was primarily concerned with trying to use its influence to better care for the needy population.
Internal party conflicts soon broke out over the question of whether the KPD should merge with the SPD to form a common socialist party. Those persecuted by the Nazi regime had discussed this in prisons and concentration camps and there were many supporters. But Dettmann, who probably returned with clear instructions from visits to Moscow, persuaded the party members to reject an alliance. As a result, Dethlefs left the KPD and became a member of the SPD.
In the SPD, his political home was in the Hamburg-Eppendorf district , where he was chairman for a long time. He was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district executive , whose chairman also included Helmut Schmidt . On January 30, 1962, Dethlefs succeeded the resigned Arthur Busch in the Hamburg citizenship. At the end of June 1971, he resigned his mandate in connection with allegations of corruption. He had been accused of having asked a member of the land management commission, his party friend Max Reimer , to vote in this commission for a plot of land on Palmaille Street to be awarded to the Kruse Architects' Association and this with the Kruse's membership in the SPD and to have justified an advised donation of 40,000 DM for the party. Reimer had reported this process to the SPD state chairman Oswald Paulig and Ulrich Hartmann , the SPD parliamentary group leader in the citizenry. The architects involved Adolph and Klaus Kruse denied having commissioned Dethleffs to take action on the matter.
Life
Friedrich Dethlefs was married. His daughter Marianne Brinckmeier made a career in the Berlin SPD. She was married to the SPD politician Jürgen Brinckmeier and was elected vice-president of the Berlin House of Representatives.
In addition to his political activities, Dethlefs was particularly interested in the professional group of showmen . He paid tribute to her work in his self-published book 650 Years of Hamburg Cathedral - the great folk festival of the north in 1979 .
literature
- Hinnerk Fock Editor: Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship 7th electoral term. Hamburg Citizenship, Hamburg 1970, OCLC 832979671 .
- Fiete Dethlefs (ed.): 650 years Hamburg Cathedral - the great folk festival of the north. self-published, Hamburg 1979, OCLC 256927916 .
- Walter Tormin : The difficult road to democracy - Political rebuilding in Hamburg 1945/46. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930802-00-7 .
- Christel Oldenburg : Tradition and Modernity - the Hamburg SPD from 1950 to 1966. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2009, Chapter 7, ISBN 978-3-8258-1970-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Hermann Schrader: THE CASE OF DETHLEF . The time . July 16, 1971. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
- ^ "The Dethleffs case is coming to a head" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 19, 1971, accessed on October 23, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dethlefs, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dethlefs, Fiete (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1908 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1985 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |