Hans Watermann

Hans Watermann (born March 23, 1904 in Papenburg , † February 20, 1988 in Vechta ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Watermann attended elementary school in Papenburg and then a secondary school . He studied economics. First he worked in banking and then became a journalist. Until it was banned in July 1933, Watermann was an active member of the Center Party and the Augustinus Association for the care of the Catholic press. He was an editor at Westfälischer Kurier and from 1928 editor and later editor-in-chief of the center newspaper Dürener Zeitung . In 1937 the newspaper was brought into line and Waterman joined the NSDAP one. The entry date on the party index card is May 1, 1937, while the application for membership was only made on July 13, 1937. From 1941 until the newspaper was closed in 1944, he was chief editor (editor-in-chief) of the Chemnitzer Tageblatt . Watermann was the only member of the editorial team that was not employed in the press, but was transferred to the Wehrmacht. After the war he was a prisoner of war for a short time. Since 1946 he was regional Caritas director and then board member of several non-profit organizations. He was also deputy chairman of the Northwest German Hospital Society and a member of the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare.

Watermann has been a member of the administrative board of Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 1955 and has been its chairman or deputy chairman several times. He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from the second to the fifth electoral term from September 12, 1953 to June 5, 1967. He represented the constituency of Vechta and was chairman of the committee for health care from June 26, 1963. On the concordat between the state of Lower Saxony and the Vatican in 1965 he was an adviser.

Awards

Watermann was the bearer of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Lower Saxony Order of Merit and the diocese plaque of the diocese of Münster.

literature

Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 396.

Web links

Obituary for the 100th birthday of the Caritas Association

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP. On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. Published by the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Bremen 2008. (PDF 1.73 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Watermann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Papenburg
DATE OF DEATH	20th of February 1988
Place of death	Vechta

[1] Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP. On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. Published by the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Bremen 2008. (PDF 1.73 MB)