Hans Meier (politician, 1913)

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Hans Meier (born March 30, 1913 in Bad Harzburg , † November 23, 2001 in Worms ) was a German politician ( LDPD ). He was Lord Mayor of Jena , a member of the People's Chamber and chairman of the LDPD regional executive committee for Thuringia . In 1953 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Meier, a commercial clerk by profession, joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1945. From October 1945 to January 1946 he was administrative director of the Jena city treasury, then from January 1946 to December 1950 Jena city ​​treasurer . From 1947 to 1950 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament and 1949/1950 chairman of the LDP parliamentary group in the state parliament and its first vice-president. From December 1950 to March 1951 he was a district councilor for finance, trade and supply in Weimar . From September 1952 to early March 1953 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Jena.

From 1949 to 1951 Meier was first an assessor of the central board, from 1951 to 1953 then a member of the central board and the political committee of the central board of the LDPD. From March 1951 to August 1952 he acted as executive chairman of the LDPD state board of Thuringia.

From 1947 he was a member of the German Economic Commission and from November 1948 to September 1949 in its plenary. From 1949 to 1953 he was also a member of the People's Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR.

At the beginning of March 1953 , Meier fled to the Federal Republic of Germany . There he was a bank director in a Hessian city and a management consultant. Meier last lived in Worms .

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 11th edition. Arani, Berlin 1951, p. 414.
  • Ulf Sommer: The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany: a bloc party under the leadership of the SED (= Agenda History , Volume 10). Agenda, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-929440-88-1 , p. 323.
  • Rüdiger Stutz (Ed.): Power and Milieu. Jena between the end of the war and the construction of the wall (= building blocks for the city's history , volume 6). Hain, Jena / Rudolstadt 2000, ISBN 3-930215-41-1 , p. 377.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD), MdV, Mayor of Jena
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Harzburg
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2001
Place of death Worms