Heinrich Eisenbarth

Heinrich Eisenbarth (born July 7, 1884 in Koblenz , † August 1, 1950 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg parliamentarian and senator (SPD).

Eisenbarth spent his school and apprenticeship in Koblenz. In the following years he worked as a carpenter and settled in Hamburg. In 1903 he became a union member and in 1908 he joined the SPD . He then became the librarian of the trade union library in Hamburg and was active in the socialist youth workers . From 1915 to 1918 Eisenbarth took part in the First World War.

After the war, Eisenbarth was elected to the Hamburg parliament in 1919 , to which he belonged until 1933 and later again from 1946 to 1950. In 1919 Eisenbarth was appointed head of the Hamburg State Labor Office. He held this post until he was elected senator. In the Hamburg Senate he was responsible for the youth authority from 1925 to 1933 and for the health authority from 1928 to 1933. In the 1920s, Eisenbarth was deputy state chairman of the Hamburg SPD. He was a member of the October 3rd club , where younger SPD and DDP politicians met regularly.

On March 2, 1933, Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick ( NSDAP ) asked the Hamburg Senate to ban the social-democratic newspaper Hamburger Echo . The following day, all of the SPD senators resigned because they did not want to approve the ban and did not want to offer any reason to interfere with Hamburg's independence. On March 8, 1933, a new Senate ruled by the National Socialists was formed and Eisenbarth was taken into protective custody during March 1933 and as part of the Hamburg Echo Assembly . He was detained again from August 1944 to May 1945 as part of the Gewitter action .

From May 15, 1945 Eisenbarth was again Senator and together with Friedrich Dettmann was responsible for the health administration and the state youth welfare office in the Hamburg Senate appointed by the British occupation authorities under the direction of Rudolf Petersen , and from November 9, 1945 only for the state youth welfare office. In the new Hamburg Senate elected on November 15, 1946 under Max Brauer , Eisenbarth was senator for the social welfare authorities. He held this office until his death.

literature

• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , (abridged version on the Internet as a biography of Heinrich Eisenbarth . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ).
• Ursula Büttner : Political Justice and Social Spirit. Hamburg at the time of the Weimar Republic. Christians, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-7672-0908-4 .

Web links

• Newspaper article about Heinrich Eisenbarth in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .