Heinrich Bechtel (politician)

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Heinrich Bechtel (born September 2, 1882 in Bonn , † September 10, 1962 in Diez ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Bechtel was the son of a Catholic mason. After the early death of his mother, the father gave Heinrich Bechtel and his twelve siblings to the orphanage, where he grew up. Bechtel attended elementary school in Bonn and then worked as an assistant until 1903. From 1903 he did voluntary military service in German South West Africa and was involved in the suppression of the Herero uprising . In addition, he was posted there until 1907 to build the railway. He retired from the service because of a serious heart disease. On February 2, 1907, he married Olga, born Just (1883–1958) in Wiesbaden, the daughter of a photographer. Like his wife, he was free religious. From 1913 to 1925 he was managing director of a cooperative in Wehen and Diez. From 1925 to 1933 he was managing director and editor of the SPD newspaper Volksstimme in the SPD district of Limburg. After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933, he was arrested unemployed and more than once. From 1936 to 1943 he worked as a branch manager of the non-profit purchasing association Diez. He was arrested in 1944 and remained in Dachau concentration camp until 1945 . After the war he was briefly managing director of AOK Diez and then a commercial clerk. He was a public plaintiff in Diez and Koblenz.

politics

Bechtel had been a member of the SPD since 1902. From 1907 he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD Wiesbaden, from 1908 to 1933 the district executive committee of the SPD.

From 1920 to 1933 he was a member of the Wiesbaden Municipal Parliament and before 1933 also a member of the municipal council in Wehen, the Diez city council and the district council of the Unterlahn district .

Legal political activity was not possible during the time of National Socialism . After the war he became a member of the SPD again and was again a member of the Diez City Council and the district council of the Unterlahnkreis until the mid-1950s.

In 1946/47 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. He was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1947 to 1955. In the state parliament he was a member of the Agricultural Policy Committee, Refugee Committee / Aid Committee for Immigrants, Main Committee and Budget and Finance Committee. In the second electoral term he was a member of the main committee.

Honors

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 46.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 24-25.
  • 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. 66.

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personal data
SURNAME Bechtel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1962
Place of death Diez