Heinrich Klasmeyer

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Heinrich Klasmeyer (born December 2, 1887 in Gütersloh , † March 26, 1963 in Neheim-Hüsten ) was a German trade unionist of the Christian metal workers' association and a politician of the Center Party and the CDU . Immediately after the liberation in 1945, he was mayor and from 1946 to 1954 city director of Neheim-Hüsten.

Life

He was a trained lathe operator and had been an active member of the Christian trade unions since 1907. Immediately before the November Revolution, he appeared as a spokesman for the Gütersloh cartel of Christian trade unions. From 1919 he worked as a union secretary in the Neheim-Hüsten local administration of the Christian Metalworkers' Association. He was initially responsible for Hüsten and thus for the Hüsten trade union . From 1920 he was managing director of the entire local administration. He was also the district chairman of the cartel of Christian trade unions in the Sauerland district .

As a representative of the socio-political wing of the Center Party, he was also deputy chairman of the party in the Arnsberg district . He was also a member of the Westphalian provincial parliament . He belonged to the council of the city of Neheim and was a member of the district council and district committee of the Arnsberg district. He was also an active member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . From 1926 he was also a member of the Prussian State Council. In 1929 he applied unsuccessfully for the office of mayor in Neheim.

He was last elected to the district committee on April 7, 1933. Under pressure from the NSDAP , he gave up his mandate in the summer of 1933. Despite the smashing of the free trade unions and a temporary occupation of the trade union building, including the Christian trade unions in Neheim, on May 2, 1933, he still had illusions that there would still be room for the Christian trade unions in the Third Reich and he supported the establishment of the German Labor Front .

With the incorporation of the Christian trade unions into the DAF, however, he lost his professional existence as a full-time trade union secretary in the summer of 1933. After that he was unemployed for a while before building up a small business as a self-employed bread seller. He was banned from selling bread in a car in 1942. Klasmeyer was arrested in 1944 as part of the grating action . His correspondence with Jakob Kaiser was found during a house search . He was then sentenced to seven months in prison. He was held in Gestapo custody and then in the judicial prison in Meschede until it was destroyed in April 1945. He was then placed under house arrest until the end of the war.

After the liberation by the Allies, he was appointed acting mayor of Neheim-Hüsten on April 19, 1945 and a short time later confirmed as full-time mayor. After the introduction of the municipal dual leadership of honorary mayor and full-time city director, he became city director in 1946.

In addition to his office, he was instrumental in founding the DGB and the CDU at city level. At times he was also chairman of the CDU Neheim-Hüsten branch.

He remained city director until 1954. In 1961 he was once again brief (honorary) mayor of Neheim-Hüsten.

A street was named after him in the Neheim district of Arnsberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Reininghaus: The revolution 1918/19 in Westphalia and Lippe as a research problem. Münster, 2016 p. 39
  2. ↑ Centralvolksblatt November 10, 1925
  3. ↑ Centralvolksblatt November 9, 1925
  4. ↑ Centralvolksblatt June 1, 1929
  5. ↑ Centralvolksblatt May 10, 1933, cf. Jens Hahnwald: Day laborers, workers and workers' movement in the Cologne Sauerland of the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. The former Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia in the area of ​​today's districts of Hochsauerland, Olpe, Soest and Märkischer Kreis (19th and 20th centuries). Volume 2, Part 1, Aschendorff, Münster 2012 p. 588

literature

  • Ottilie Knepper-Babilon, Hannelie Kaiser-Löffler: Resistance against National Socialism in the Sauerland. Brilon, 2003 pp. 170f.
  • Günter Cronau : The mayors of cities and communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Vol. 2, 1 Münster, 2012 p. 228
  • 50th anniversary of the Metalworkers Union. Neheim-Hüsten local administration. Neheim-Hüsten, 1954 p. 36f.
personal data
SURNAME Klasmeyer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1963
Place of death Neheim-Hüsten