Heinrich Gerns

Heinrich Gerns

Heinrich Gerns on an election poster for the 1949 federal election

Heinrich Gerns (born April 22, 1892 in Bothfeld near Hanover , † August 20, 1963 in Kiel ) was a German politician ( DNVP , CDU ).

Life

Gerns, the Lutheran faith was studied after high school at the secondary school technology and economics in Berlin and Hanover. He was a soldier in the First World War . Since 1920 he worked as a farmer, he managed the Löhndorf estate near Wankendorf . In 1922, Gerns was involved in the establishment of the Schleswig-Holstein power supply and the overland control center. He was a member of the Reich Settlement Committee and associations of agricultural cooperatives. He was a soldier again in World War II, most recently in the rank of Colonel in the Air Force.

Political party

Gerns belonged to the DNVP in the Weimar Republic . In 1945 he co-founded the CDU in the Plön district and became district chairman there in 1952.

MP

Gerns was a member of the Reichstag for the DNVP from 1928 to 1930 .

Since 1947 Gerns was a member of the district council in the Plön district . He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 until his death. At times he was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union , where he headed the Agriculture Committee in 1954/55. From 1950 to 1963 Gerns was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , where he headed the Agriculture Committee from 1951.

Heinrich Gerns has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Plön - Eutin / Nord .

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 256.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Gerns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heinrich Gerns in the database of members of the Reichstag