Heinrich Angermeier

This article describes the KPD politician Heinrich Angermeier. For the historian of the same name, see Heinz Angermeier .

Heinrich Angermeier (born April 5, 1884 in Groß -zimmer ; † February 22, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and farmer.

Life

Angermeier was the son of the baker Anton Angermeier and his wife Magdalena nee Krauss (Weber describes the father as a "socialist-oriented farmer"). Angermeier, who was of a Catholic denomination, married Anna Maria Kern in the first marriage and Christina Strauss in the second marriage. Sprout.

He was seriously wounded in World War I and in 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany, for which he was elected to the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse in 1924 , where he gained a reputation as an agricultural expert. Angermeier always remained a farmer in Groß-Zimmer and only took on honorary party functions, for example as a member of the Darmstadt sub-district management. 1927 re-elected to Parliament, stepped Anger Meier, the party internally to the "right" wing around Thalheimer and Brandler counted, after the exclusion of his party colleagues Heinrich Galm early 1929 from the KPD and the closed Communist Party Opposition (KPO) to, for which he fulfilled his state parliament mandate until the end of the legislative period. Unlike Galm, Angermeier did not succeed in being re-elected to the state parliament in 1931.

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, Angermeier was arrested and held in the Osthofen concentration camp for over a year . After his release he worked again on his farm in Groß -zimmer until 1944. He was arrested again on August 22, 1944 as part of the Grid Action and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on August 25, 1944, where he died on February 22, 1945.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 123.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 54.
• Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic . Volume 2. Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 61.
• Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

Web links

• Angermeier, Heinrich. Hessian biography. (As of February 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).