Gustav Altenhain

Gustav Altenhain (born December 5, 1891 in Haßlinghausen , † December 23, 1968 in Gevelsberg ) was a German politician ( FDP ).

education and profession

After attending elementary school, the commercial school and the arts and crafts school , Altenhain took over the management of a printing company as the owner. Gustav-Altenhain-Straße in Sprockhövel is named after him.

Political party

Altenhain joined the DDP in 1918 and became a member of the German State Party through its merger with the Young German Order in 1930 .

After the Second World War, Altenhain took part in the founding of the Liberal Democratic Party in Westphalia, which on January 7, 1946 in Opladen took part in the founding of the FDP in the British zone. At their founding party congress he was elected to one of the six deputy chairmen of the zone association and confirmed in office in June 1947. He was also chairman of the FDP regional association of Westphalia and, after the formation of the FDP regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia , became its chairman on May 27, 1947. In this office he, who was assigned to the left wing of the party, was replaced in August 1947 in a voting by party right wing Friedrich Middelhauve . From the beginning of 1952 he belonged to an inner-party group around Carl Wirths and Karl Schneider , which sharply criticized the course of the national collection, as it was pursued by Middelhauve and Ernst Achenbach .

MP

From 1925 to 1933 Altenhain was the official representative of Haßlinghausen, from 1926 to 1933 a member of the Ennepe-Ruhr district committee and from 1929 to 1933 municipal representative of Haßlinghausen. Since 1945 he was again a member of the municipal and official council as well as the district council.

Altenhain was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Westphalia from 1927 to 1929 and 1946 , was a deputy member of the Zone Advisory Council for the British Zone from 1946 to 1948 and was a member of the State Assembly of Westphalia-Lippe from 1953 to 1964 .

Altenhain was a member of the two appointed North Rhine-Westphalian state parliaments in 1946/47 and was then an elected member of the state parliament from April 1947 to 1958 . There he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from 1946 to 1954, deputy chairman of the personnel committee from 1948 to 1949 and deputy chairman of the budget and finance committee from 1950 to 1955. 1950 to 1954 he was also second vice president of the state parliament. The state parliament elected him a member of the federal assemblies in 1949 and 1954, in each of which Theodor Heuss was elected Federal President, and in 1959, when Heinrich Lübke was elected.

Public offices

Altenhain was mayor of Haßlinghausen in 1945/46.

literature

• 50 years of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country and its deputies . Düsseldorf 1996.

Web links

Gustav Altenhain at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Footnotes

1. ↑ see also MdL list of 1st electoral term , 2nd electoral term and 3rd electoral term