Heinrich Glasmeyer

Heinrich Glasmeyer (born April 4, 1893 in Steinbeck (Westphalia) , † January 2, 1974 in Rheine ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

Life

Glasmeyer completed an apprenticeship as a baker, which he finished as a journeyman. Then he made up his Abitur and from 1914 took part in the First World War as a war volunteer. After the end of the war in 1918 he began to study political science and Catholic theology. From 1922 he worked as a self-employed farmer and received his doctorate in 1926 with the text Civil Society and Religion .

politics

In 1919 Glasmeyer joined the Center Party. He was elected to the provincial parliament of Westphalia in the last free elections in 1933 , but lost his mandate again after a few months.

After the end of the Second World War, Glasmeyer rejoined the center and became a member of the Steinfurt district council . At the same time he officiated as deputy district administrator of this district. In the federal election in 1949 he became a member of the Bundestag for the Center Party on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was a full member of the Constitutional Protection Committee, the Burden-Balancing Committee, and the ERP Committee. On November 23, 1951, he resigned from the faction of the Center Party and joined the CDU, for which he entered parliament in the 1953 federal election , also via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia. In both electoral terms he was also a full member of the committee under Article 15 of the Basic Law, in the second electoral term he was also a member of the Petitions Committee .

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 , pp. 262-263.