Fritz Heinemann (politician)

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Fritz Heinemann (born November 19, 1903 in Lütgendortmund , † November 19, 1975 in Bochum ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

The grave of Fritz Heinemann in the Querenburg cemetery in Bochum.

Life

Fritz Heinemann had lived in Bochum since 1907, where he attended elementary school. After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship at the AOK in Bochum from 1918 to 1921 and at the same time attended the commercial school of the Bochum Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1922 he worked as a commercial clerk at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG . Already during his apprenticeship years he was active in the union youth and in 1924 he joined the Central Association of Employees (ZdA), to which he belonged until his self-dissolution in 1933. From 1945 he was a member of IG Bergbau und Energie . In addition to his professional activity, he was a member of the works council .

Heinemann joined the SPD in 1927 and was a member of the board of the Bochum Social Democrats until 1933. After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the SPD Bochum and was re-elected to the party executive. He was councilor from 1946 to 1969 and honorary mayor of the city of Bochum from 1952 to 1969 . He was elected Lord Mayor four times: on November 20, 1952, on October 28, 1956, on March 19, 1961 and on September 27, 1964.

Heinemann was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Parliament from July 5, 1950 to July 25, 1970 . In his candidacies for the Landtag, he always won the direct mandate , in 1950 and 1954 in constituency 104 (Bochum-Süd), 1958 in constituency 104 (Bochum III) and 1962 and 1966 in constituency 107 (Bochum III).

honors and awards

literature

  • Johannes Volker Wagner (ed.): Change of a city. Bochum since 1945. Data, facts, analyzes. University Press Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer, Bochum 1993, ISBN 978-3-8196-0152-1 , p. 397.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 18th edition. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, p. 387.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Heinemann. City of Bochum, accessed on February 1, 2016 .