Friedrich Meyer (politician, 1910)

Friedrich Meyer (born February 10, 1910 in Mardorf , † November 30, 1975 in Neustadt am Rübenberge ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From June 4, 1967 to June 20, 1974, he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover in the 6th and 7th electoral terms. There he worked on the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry.

Life

"Stoffers Fritz" ( as he was also called ) attended elementary school in Mardorf am Steinhuder Meer from 1916 to 1924. He grew up on his parents' Kötnerhof "Stoffers" No. 23. Even his father was mayor, community leader and registrar in Mardorf for 23 years. In 1929 and 1930 he attended the agricultural college. On May 3, 1930, he married the farmer's daughter Ida Nortmeier (* 1912) from "Wieschenhof" No. 19 in the Mardorfer Chapel. They had two daughters. From 1939 he was a member of the Wehrmacht (Air Force). At the end of the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on the Eastern Front, where he was held in Siberia until 1946.

Act

From 1952 to 1956 Meyer was a member of the district housing committee for housing the many displaced persons and refugees in the Neustadt am Rübenberge district

Fritz Meyer was the district administrator in the Neustadt am Rübenberge district from November 27, 1956 to November 15, 1972 ; until 1961 for the DP , then for the WG and FDP and from 1964 for the SPD. Despite the consequences of a stroke, he remained a district member of the SPD until the territorial reform in 1974. In the district council, he was particularly committed to building roads (“Green Plan”), water management, the establishment of play groups and, until the end, for the independence of Mardorf (at least as an independent municipality in a joint municipality). When this no longer seemed possible because of Hanover's interests at Steinhuder Meer, he tried to integrate Mardorf into the new town of Rehburg-Loccum . From 1952 to 1957 he was deputy and from June 1, 1959 to 1966 chairman of the Lower Saxony rural people in the Neustadt am Rübenberge district association. In 1975 he was made honorary chairman. From 1959 to 1967 he was also a district farmer for Neustadt a.Rbge. Meyer was also a chief agricultural judge at the higher regional court - Senate for agricultural matters - in Celle and an assessor at the administrative court in Hanover.

In 1952 he was one of the founders and until 1961 chairman of the shooting club Mardorf eV, later its honorary chairman. In 1957 he was co-founder and head of the Meerbach Association (as the head association in Leese) until the Meerbach-Führse entertainment association was founded in 1960. He is one of the founders of the Wunstorfer Aue Association No. 53 and 54 and was its long-term chairman. He is one of the initiators of the water and soil associations (WuBv) - including "Unteres Leinetal" - and was on the board of the WuBv "Steinhuder-Meerbruch". In addition, he was involved in key tasks in water management (including the Meerbach, north and south brook regulation) in the Hanover district. Associated with this, he was an assessor of the Spruchstelle for land consolidation at the State Cultural Office in Hanover. In 1960 he was one of the re-founder and 1965-1974 chairman of the tourist office Mardorf eV As one of the initiators of the "Municipal Association Greater Hannover " he settles in 1963 to promote sustainable tourism on Steinhude and supports 1974 the establishment of the " Nature Park Steinhude " . On site, he persistently tries to convince those affected of the benefits. Around 1965/1966 he founded the independent SPD local association Mardorf and remained its first chairman until the beginning of 1972. On February 19, 1986, the village community Mardorf eV named the village community center District Administrator Friedrich Meyer after him.

literature

• Friedrich Dankenbring (village community) : Chronicle of Mardorf am Steinhuder Meer (history of a village and its inhabitants).
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 252.