Hans Meineke

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Hans August Friedrich Meineke (also Hans AF Meineke ) (born December 23, 1889 in Hamburg ; † August 11, 1960 ) was a German manager , politician ( BDV , FDP ) and Bremen senator.

biography

education and profession

Meineke attended schools in Hamburg and initially worked as a businessman. In 1910 he became the director's secretary of Norddeutscher Lloyd in Bremen and worked for the company in Singapore from 1912 to 1914 . From 1922 he was a board member of the Bremen Unterweser shipping company . He also acted as President of the Bremen Regional Association of the German Red Cross (DRK) since 1949 .

Meineke had been married to Dorothee Kothe since 1942 .

politics

Meineke took part in the founding of the Bremen Democratic People's Party (BDV) after the Second World War and acted as its state chairman in 1947 and again in 1951. In 1947/48 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the first time . From January 22nd, 1948 to November 29th, 1951 he was Senator for Health Care of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . From January 1, 1950, he also served as Senator for Housing (successor to Senator Johannes Degener ). From 1951 to 1955 he was again a member of the citizenship and there since October 19, 1953 deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

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