Heinrich Deist senior
Heinrich Deist (born July 9, 1874 in Mitterode , † June 19, 1963 in Dessau ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and Prime Minister of the Free State of Anhalt .
Life
Born the son of a farmer, Deist trained as a typesetter in Kassel . In 1895 he became a member of the SPD. After wandering around, Deist started working as a printer in Bant , now a district of Wilhelmshaven, from 1898 . In 1903 he moved with his family to Dessau and took over the management of the union newspaper Volksblatt für Anhalt . His political career for the Social Democrats began in 1905 with the election to the city council, from 1913 he was deputy head of the city council.
After the end of the monarchy in 1918 and the relinquishment of the throne by the Duke of Anhalt, Deist was appointed to the transitional government of the Free State of Anhalt as a State Councilor. After the state elections in December 1918 he was first deputy and from mid-1919 finally president of the State Council in Anhalt. Deist held this office, known as Prime Minister from 1922, with a six-month break in 1924 until 1932, when he was replaced by Alfred Freyberg , Germany's first National Socialist Prime Minister.
In the Third Reich, Deist was held in protective custody several times , but survived National Socialism. In 1945, Anhalt became part of the SBZ and Deist was appointed district president of the Anhalt administrative district based in Dessau in the province of Saxony . On July 14, 1946, Deist witnessed an attack by Soviet soldiers on the Viktorshöhe inn in the Harz Mountains, where he lived for a time. On June 30, 1947, the administrative districts of Saxony-Anhalt were dissolved and he was president of the administrative school of the state until 1949. He died in Dessau in 1963 at the age of 89.
His eldest son, Heinrich Deist jun. , was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1953 to 1964.
estate
Heinrich Deist's written estate is in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
See also
- Kabinett Gutknecht - Kabinett Heine - Kabinett Deist I - Kabinett Deist II - Kabinett Deist III - Kabinett Deist IV
literature
- Ralf Regener: Heinrich Peus, Heinrich Deist and the peculiar way of the lasting social democracy in the First World War. In: World War, Division, Revolution. Social Democracy 1916 - 1922. Edited by Uli Schöler, Thilo Scholle, Bonn 2018, pp. 180–193.
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 306.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ordinance sheet for the province of Saxony. No. 1 of October 6, 1945, p. 22.
- ↑ Wilfried Lübeck, The cases are increasing, attacks by Soviet soldiers in Saxony-Anhalt 1945-1947 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle (Saale), ISBN 978-3-89812-873-5 , page 146
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Deist senior in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich Deist biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Reinhard Höppner: Heinrich Deist . Speech at the Evangelical Academy in Berlin on November 1, 2001
- Heinrich Deist's estate in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department
Wolfgang Heine (1918–1919) | Heinrich Deist (1919–1924) | Willy Knorr (1924) | Heinrich Deist (1924–1932) | Alfred Freyberg (1932–1940) | Rudolf Jordan (1940–1945)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deist, Heinrich senior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Deist, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) and Prime Minister of the Free State of Anhalt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mitterode |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1963 |
| Place of death | Dessau |