Hans Krukenmeyer

Hans Krukenmeyer (* 1903 ; † unknown) was deputy state chairman of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1945 to 1948.

Krukenmeyer came from West Germany, had studied economics and in 1920 joined the center politically . From 1936 he was managing director of the Ostland settlement company in Güstrow and Schwerin . He lost a leg as a soldier in World War II. After the war, Hans Krukenmeyer founded the CDU regional association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin together with many left-liberal former DDP members . From July 1945 to June 1948 he was deputy state chairman. In 1948 the Soviet occupation forces prevented Krukenmeyer's re-election. Already in September 1947 she had him arrested for alleged sabotage of the land reform . Krukenmeyer, who was responsible for the harvesting of the harvest in August 1945 as the representative of the state government and later as managing director with the liquidation of the Mecklenburg settlement company, rejected a comprehensive land reform on the basis of expropriation without compensation. Instead, he favored a limited rural settlement. He was eventually expelled from the CDU, which had been brought into line, and fled to West Germany in 1948.

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• Arnd Bauernkämper: Rural Society in the Communist Dictatorship. Forced modernization and tradition in Brandenburg 1945-1963 . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, p. 102
• Berit Olschewski: Friends in enemy territory. Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945-1953 . Berlin 2009, p. 508