Heinrich Hamacher

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Heinrich Hamacher (left) next to Josef Hufnagel at the medal ceremony in 1965

Heinrich "Hein" Hamacher (born April 9, 1899 in Cologne ; † July 19, 1974 there ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

After attending elementary school , Hamacher completed an apprenticeship as a fine wire puller from 1913 to 1915 . In 1915 he joined the German Metalworkers' Association . In the First World War he was a soldier and was badly damaged in the war. From 1919 he worked again as a rope maker and wire puller. He was a shop steward for the DMV and works council. In the mid-1920s he studied economics, business administration and social studies for nine trimesters at the trade union seminar in Cologne.

Hamacher joined the KPD after 1918 and in 1923 participated as a courier in the fight against the Rhenish separatists . In 1925 he joined the SPD, for which he also worked illegally after 1933. From 1930 he worked full-time as party secretary for the SPD sub-district of Greater Cologne. In addition to his partisan activities, he was deputy chairman of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association in the Rhineland until 1933 .

After the National Socialists came to power , Hamacher was held in protective custody for about ten months and was interned in the Esterwegen concentration camp until November 1933 . Together with the Social Democrats Franz Bott and Willi Schirrmacher , he set up a distribution network in Cologne in 1934 for publications of the SPD in exile that were printed abroad, which was discovered by the Gestapo in May 1935 . Because of his illegal political activities, he was charged with “preparing to commit high treason” before the People's Court in 1936 . The trial ended in an acquittal. From 1938 to 1945 he worked at the Ford factory in Cologne . In connection with the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was imprisoned again for a short time.

After the Second World War he worked full-time for the SPD again, initially as a secretary and managing director in Cologne and from 1953 as managing director of the SPD district of Middle Rhine. He was also the state chairman of the working group of politically persecuted social democrats in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Hamacher was a member of the city council of his hometown Cologne from 1945 to 1958. From 1957 to 1969 he was a member of the Bundestag . In the federal elections in 1957 and 1961 he took over the national list of SPD North Rhine-Westphalia in parliament and in the general election in 1965 he won the direct mandate in the constituency Cologne IV . During his membership in the German Bundestag he was a member of several committees; from 1957 to 1965 for reparations, from 1965 to 1969 for damage caused by war and persecution and from 1961 to 1963 for housing, urban development and spatial planning.

Heinrich Hamacher had been with Margaretha, born in 1925. Paffrath, married and had one daughter. His daughter Grete married Achim von Loesch and was an SPD politician in the Frankfurt city parliament. In 1965 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic . In Cologne Dünnwald is Hein-Hamacher path named after him. His estate is in the historical archive of the city of Cologne .

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. 301.
  • Fritz Singer (Ed.): Handbook of the German Bundestag. 4th edition. Klett, Stuttgart 1957, p. 228.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans-Holger Paul (arr.): Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement. Ed. from the Archive of Social Democracy Bonn, Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-11104-5 , p. 227.
  2. ↑ a b Martin Rüther: Germany in the first post-war year. Reports from members of the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) from occupied Germany in 1945/46. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-11349-8 , p. 584.
  3. ^ Carl Dietmar (ed.): Chronicle of Cologne. 3rd, revised and updated edition. Chronik Verlag, Gütersloh & München 1997, ISBN 3-577-14445-9 , pp. 379, 386.
  4. ^ A b Adolf Klein: Cologne in the Third Reich. City history from 1933–1945. Greven Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 3-7743-0206-5 , p. 140.
  5. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 16th edition. Arani-Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 429.
  6. ↑ Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region from January 29, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Hamacher, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamacher, Hein (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1974
Place of death Cologne