Heinrich Barlage

This article describes the German politician. For the Cologne cathedral capitular and priest see Heinrich Barlage (clergyman) .

Heinrich Barlage (born December 6, 1891 in Nordhorn ; † April 18, 1968 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending the Catholic elementary school, Barlage continued his education with private lessons and evening courses at a commercial college. In 1905 he began commercial training in spinning and weaving, which he completed in 1907 with the assistant test. He then worked as a clerk in the textile industry in Nordhorn, Münster and Rheine . He did military service from 1913 and took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 . During the war he was used in France and Russia , most recently with the rank of vice sergeant.

Barlage worked from 1919 to 1924 as an accountant at Ludwig Povel & Co. in Nordhorn. He then started working as an independent building materials wholesaler. He was drafted into the police force in 1942 and had been head of the Nordhorn police from 1945. As a co-founder, he was a board member of the Lower Saxony Association of Cities until 1952 . Barlage was active in the Catholic association of the city of Nordhorn and, as chairman of the Catholic Commercial Association (KKV), was targeted by the Osnabrück Gestapo. He led the Nordhorn local group, which had a large number of members, from at least the beginning of 1928 until it was forcibly dissolved in 1936.

Political party

Like his father, Heinrich Barlage was active in the Catholic Center Party , which he officially joined in 1924, and on whose list he was later mayor of Nordhorn. In 1931 he became the party's deputy local chairman. From January 1933 to 1936 Barlage was Senator for the city of Nordhorn, initially for the Center Party, later as a non-party. At the end of 1945 Barlage was one of the founders of the CDU in Nordhorn and was elected chairman of the CDU district association Grafschaft Bentheim .

MP

Barlage was elected to the council of Altendorf in 1923 and was a council member of Nordhorn from 1929 to 1943. In 1930 the center member came to the Grafschafter district committee on an election proposal from the center and the SPD.

From 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the German Bundestag . He has entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Emsland constituency .

Public offices

In the 1920s, Barlage was an alderman of the Altendorf community, from 1929 to 1934 a member of the magistrate of the city of Nordhorn and then deputy mayor there. From 1948 to 1952 he was mayor of the city of Nordhorn.

literature

• Helmut Lensing, Art. Barlage, Heinrich Nikolaus Ambrosius, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 12, Haselünne 2005, pp. 310-320.
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 37.