Heinrich Drake (politician)

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Heinrich Drake, monument (metal bust) in Detmold
Drake's birthplace in Lemgo

Heinrich Drake (born December 20, 1881 in Lemgo ; † June 12, 1970 in Detmold ) was a German politician , long-time chairman of the state presidium of Lippe, the last state president of the states of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe and, after their dissolution, regional president of the Detmold district .

Life

Drake began his professional life with an apprenticeship as a businessman in a bookstore from 1896 to 1899. He was then an employee until 1903, then until 1910 managing director of the bookstore and printing company FL Wagener in Lemgo . From 1910 he worked as a journalist and bargaining stenographer.

Drake was a managing member from 1919 to 1933, from 1925 chairman and from 1932 president of the Lippe state government. After the state elections on January 15, 1933, his government was replaced by a new, NS-led state government. In May 1933 he moved up to the Reichstag, to which he was a member until June 23. Drake had been a member of the SPD since 1906 and resigned from the party on June 23, 1933, one day after the SPD was banned. After 1945 he continued his party membership - as if he had not left. After the Second World War he was appointed President of the State of Lippe by the Allies and for a short time also by Schaumburg-Lippe . He negotiated with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia about the admission of the state of Lippe. In 1947, these negotiations were concluded with the Lippe punctuation as an agreement between the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the state government of the state of Lippe. In the punctures, Drake obtained extensive concessions from North Rhine-Westphalia to Lippe. His initiative is u. a. to thank the Landesverband Lippe , which was founded to protect Lippe state assets from access by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Drake also fought for the move of the district government from Minden to Detmold to compensate for the loss of sovereignty. For the state of Schaumburg-Lippe, he negotiated the merger in the newly founded state of Lower Saxony. To compensate for the loss of statehood, the Lower Saxony State Court was later set up in Bückeburg .

From April 1, 1947 to 1952, Drake was the district president of the newly created administrative district of Minden-Lippe, which was renamed the administrative district of Detmold on June 2, 1947 . His predecessor in the government in Minden was Paul Zenz . From 1949 to 1952 and from 1956 to 1966 Drake was head of the Lippe regional association .

If one only looks at the politicians who were heads of government in a state government after the Second World War, Drake is one of the few who held office on an intermittent basis, as well as one of the few who also headed the government in two countries, in the Trap Drakes at times even at the same time. Drake is also the only politician in this period under review during whose term of office two countries he ruled lost their sovereignty.

Honors

The sculptor Heinrich Drake portrayed the politician Drake in 1971 in a bust that stands in front of the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold. Drake was an honorary citizen of Lemgo. A school was named after him there and in Detmold, and a square in Oerlinghausen . There is a Heinrich Drake settlement in Espelkamp (Minden-Lübbecke district).

See also

literature

  • Andreas Ruppert: Heinrich Drake in politics in Lippe. November 1918 to January 1933 In: Stadt Detmold u. a. (Ed.): War-Revolution-Republic. Detmold 1914-1933 , Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 2007. ISBN 3-89528-606-0
  • Andreas Ruppert: Heinrich Drake 1933 - 1947 (lecture in Brake Castle on November 29, 2006). In: Rosenland. Zeitschrift für Lippe History No. 5, February 2007, pp. 16–28. ( Complete edition as PDF )
  • Selected chapters of German contemporary history: lectures on the 100th birthday of Heinrich Drake . Detmold 1982 ( LLB Detmold )
  • Volker Wehrmann: Heinrich Drake 1881-1970. His life in pictures and documents . Detmold 1981.
  • In memory of Heinrich Drake. Documents and opinions . Edited by the Press and Information Office of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf 1970.
  • Karl Rauchschwalbe: History of the Lippe Social Democracy . Bielefeld 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Drake, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, (SPD, non-party), MdR, district president
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1970
Place of death Detmold