Heinrich Fink (politician)

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Heinrich Friedrich Christian Fink (born March 29, 1902 in Kiel , † February 14, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( KPD ).

Life

Fink was a plumber by profession . From 1921 member of the KPD. From 1933 to 1936 in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . As a shipyard worker, he was chairman of the works council of Deutsche Werft in Hamburg for several years . Head of the "Shipyards" branch of IG Metall Hamburg.

From 1954 until the ban in 1956, Fink was state chairman of the KPD in Hamburg. In 1953 the SED decided that Fink should take part in international meetings and conferences for the KPD as the “only workers' representative of West Germany”. Fink should act as a counterweight to the former Chancellor Joseph Wirth , who was assessed as a "bourgeois gossip".

From 1949 to 1953 he represented the KPD in the Hamburg citizenship . From 1968 member of the DKP .

Web links

  • Fink, Heinrich . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 304 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. IG Metall administration office Hamburg (ed.): "Don't wait for others, now pack something yourself", VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 1995, p. 82.
  2. Heinrich Fink . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1953 ( online ).