Heinrich Kohl (politician, 1912)

Heinrich Kohl 1973 (far right)

Heinrich Kohl (born October 6, 1912 in Gilserberg ; † July 22, 1984 ) was a German lawyer, officer, pilot, district administrator and politician ( FDP ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1932, Kohl began studying law, political science and newspaper studies in Berlin , which he completed in 1936 with the first state examination in law.

On May 1, 1933, Kohl joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2.023.813). After completing pilot training in 1934/35, he became a pilot in the Wehrmacht's air force in 1936. Participated in World War II as a dive fighter pilot . After being shot down in 1942, the captain became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released in August 1947. Then he was a court trainee. In 1952 he passed the second state examination in law.

Kohl joined the FDP after the Second World War. From 1959 to 1961 he was deputy state chairman of the FDP Hessen and then co-chairman of the party together with Wolfgang Mischnick . From 1962 to 1967 he was the sole chairman of the Hessian Liberals. From 1959 to 1971 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee.

Kohl was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1950 to 1970 , where he was deputy chairman from 1958 to 1963 and 1965/1966, and chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from 1963 to 1965. From 1966 to 1970 he was Vice President of the State Parliament. From 1974 to 1977 he was a council member of the city ​​of Frankenau . In 1959, 1964 and 1969 he was a member of the federal assemblies . From 1953 to 1970 he was district administrator of the Frankenberg district , from 1970 to 1976 State Secretary to the Hessian Interior Minister Hanns-Heinz Bielefeld (FDP).

From 1972 he was chairman of the German Association for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning , Landesgruppe Hessen. In 1980 he became the first chairman of the Hessen State Association of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society .

One of his daughters is the writer Christiane Kohl .

Honors

• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Front flight clasp
• Wounded badge
• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study “Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members” of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project “Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse” . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 24, 50, 60 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
• Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 305 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 222.
• Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberals in Hessen. 1848-1980. Festschrift on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Heinz Herbert Karry, Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Economics and Technology of the State of Hesse , Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• Sabine Schneider: burdened democrats. Hessian member of the state parliament of the post-war period between National Socialism and liberalization. Historical Commission for Hesse ISBN 9783942225458 (therein entries on Kohl and 10 other people), Sales Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg 2019 (series: Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 48, 15; & Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse, 47) ( final report to a preliminary report from 2013)

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Kohl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kohl, Heinrich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).