Heinrich Danzebrink

This article is about the politician. For the pedagogue of the same name (1855–1914) see Heinrich Danzebrink (pedagogue)

Heinrich Danzebrink (born January 2, 1899 in Prüm , † 1964 in Koblenz ) was a German-French lawyer and Saarland politician.

Life

After studying law in Cologne Danzebrink began in 1927 an activity at the administrative court for social security and war victims in Dusseldorf . In 1931 he moved to Münster as a member of the government , but was dismissed in 1933 at the instigation of the NSDAP as a committed Christian trade unionist because of "political unreliability". Between 1933 and 1935 worked for the government commission of the League of Nations in Saarbrücken . After the integration of the Saarland into the German Reich , Danzebrink emigrated to France in 1935 and in the same year went to Geneva to study at the Institute for Higher International Studies .

After the Nazi regime had stripped him of his German citizenship, Danzebrink took French citizenship in 1938 and joined the French army in 1939 . In 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Lyon , but managed to escape. From 1943 to 1945 he worked as a teacher in Chambéry in Savoy . After the end of the Second World War he returned to the Saar region and was initially head of the domestic policy department of the regional council, and on September 15, 1946 head of the economic and transport department in the administrative commission . On October 14, 1947, he became a member of the first state parliament of Saarland for the Christian People's Party of the Saarland (CVP) . On January 8, 1949, the CVP parliamentary group expelled him, and on June 30, 1949, his mandate was revoked by the parliament because he was not a Saarland citizen. Most recently he worked as a councilor in Münster.

Act

As a member of the state parliament, Danzebrink repeatedly castigated the “pseudo-autonomy of the Saar” and expulsions by the French occupying forces in fiery speeches . After a protest speech against the expulsion of Pastor Franz Bungarten , he was refused entry to parliament on the instructions of the President of the State Parliament by the police. While the CVP and Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann were in favor of closer political ties to France, Danzebrink was part of an internal opposition to the Saar Statute, which included the CVP's ​​trade union wing in particular. They wanted to prevent closer ties to the neighboring country and also rejected the control of the Saarland economy by the French. The conflict with Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann and the French High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval escalated and ultimately led to Danzebrink's expulsion from the CVP parliamentary group and the withdrawal of his parliamentary mandate due to his lack of Saarland citizenship.

Web links

• Heinrich Danzebrink on saarland-biografien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Herbert Elzer: The German reunification on the Saar: The Federal Ministry for all-German issues and the network of the pro-German opposition 1949–1955 . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert, 2007, pp. 823–827