Heinrich Deist

Heinrich Deist (born December 10, 1902 in Bant , Wilhelmshaven district , † March 7, 1964 in Meran , South Tyrol ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

family

Heinrich Deist was the eldest son of his father of the same name, Heinrich Deist sen. who, among other things, was Social Democratic Prime Minister of the State of Anhalt from 1919 to 1932 . From 1931 Deist was married to his wife Hanna.

Study and job

After graduating from secondary school in Dessau , Deist studied law and economics in Leipzig , Hamburg and Halle (Saale) . After his traineeship exams in 1924, traineeship and assessor exams in 1928, he entered the Prussian administrative service and in 1931 became personal assistant to the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing . After the " Prussian coup " in 1932 he was sent to Dusseldorf are added and finally to the power of the Nazis fired for "political unreliability" of the public service. In 1933 he set up his own stationery shop in Düsseldorf and, after studying business administration in Cologne, was admitted as an auditor in 1941 and as a tax consultant in 1942 .

In 1945 Deist, who graduated from the University of Cologne in 1944 as Dr. rer. pole. had received his doctorate, initially an employee of the DGB chairman Hans Böckler . In 1951 he became chairman of the supervisory board of the Bochumer Verein für Gußstahlfabrikation (BVG) for the union side and in 1952 also of WURAG Eisen und Stahlwerke AG , which were taken over by the BVG.

Heinrich-Deist-Straße in Bergkamen is named after Deist .

Political party

Deist had been a member of the SPD since 1920 after joining the SAJ in 1918 . In the 1920s he belonged to the “ Hofgeismarer Kreis ” around Theodor Haubach and Carlo Mierendorff . In 1938 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4,616,147).

In 1952 Deist was proposed by the DGB as one of the two German representatives in the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community , but was rejected by France because of his NSDAP membership and then replaced by Heinz Potthoff .

In the 1961 federal election campaign , he was part of Willy Brandt's government team , which SPD chairman Erich Ollenhauer presented at the federal party conference on November 25, 1960 in Hanover in the event of the government taking over. He was planned as Federal Minister of Economics .

At the federal party congress of the SPD in Stuttgart in 1958 , Deist, who as head of the "Economic and Social Policy" division of the SPD party executive was responsible for the economic policy statements of the Godesberg program , criticized the supporters of excessive nationalization policy in the party by saying that it could not be the task of the social democracy to operate an "intermediate trade in antiques". He also came up with the formulation "The combination of means of social democratic economic policy is threefold: market economy , monetary and fiscal global control and welfare policy" from 1963.

MP

Heinrich Deist was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 until his death. In 1953 and 1957 he moved into parliament via the state list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1961 via a direct mandate in the Bochum constituency . 1953 to 1957 he was chairman of the Bundestag committee under Article 15 of the Basic Law . In 1957/58 Deist headed the economic policy working group of the SPD parliamentary group. From November 4, 1958 until his death, he was deputy parliamentary group leader of the SPD.

From December 10, 1953 until his death, Deist was also a member of the European Parliament . From 1959 to 1962 he headed the “Committee for Long-Term Economic Policy, Finance and Investment” and from 1962 until his death the “Economic and Financial Committee”.

Publications

Law 75 and Ruhr Statute. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1950 (together with Viktor Agartz )

Individual evidence

↑ Deist, Heinrich, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Daecke bis Dziekan] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 208–209 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 212 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
^ Hitoshi Suzuki: The High Authority of the ECSC, the European Network of Trade Unions and the DGB. Ideas, Strategies and Achievements. In: Bulletin of the Institute for Social Movements. 42, 2009, pp. 63-88, here p. 76.

personal data
SURNAME	Deist, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bant , Wilhelmshaven district
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1964
Place of death	Meran , South Tyrol

[1] Deist, Heinrich, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Daecke bis Dziekan] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 208–209 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 212 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

[2] Hitoshi Suzuki: The High Authority of the ECSC, the European Network of Trade Unions and the DGB. Ideas, Strategies and Achievements. In: Bulletin of the Institute for Social Movements. 42, 2009, pp. 63-88, here p. 76.