Heinrich Becker (politician, 1877)

Heinrich Becker (born June 5, 1877 in Holten in the former Mülheim an der Ruhr district ; † January 13, 1964 in Burg (Herborn) , Dillkreis ) was a social democratic German politician, trade unionist and member of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933.

Heinrich Becker

Life

Becker was a miner and joined the SPD in 1905 . He was also active in the voluntary miners' union . From 1911 he was a full-time employee of the union.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis Becker fled to the Saar and supported Max Brown in his efforts to connect to the Nazi Germany to prevent. After these efforts failed, Becker fled to France in 1935, where he and Max Braun helped found a “ German Popular Front ”. When the war broke out, Becker was interned, arrested again in 1941 by the Vichy regime and extradited to the Germans. On April 13, 1943, he was sentenced to five years in prison in Berlin for preparation for high treason. Until the liberation by the Soviet army at the end of April 1945, Becker was imprisoned in Brandenburg-Görden .

After the war, Becker returned to the Lahn-Dill district ( Burg (Herborn) ), remained a member of the SPD, but was no longer actively involved in political life for reasons of age.

He left four sons from his first marriage: Heinrich, Wilhelm, Erich and Herbert Becker, two daughters: Elisabeth and Anni, and two sons from his second marriage (Hans Becker and Peter Becker).

literature

• Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg, 2000. p. 32.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Heinrich Becker in the database of members of the Reichstag