Heinrich Lücking

Heinrich Lücking (born April 22, 1884 in Neuenbeken , † October 3, 1968 in Paderborn ) was a German social democratic politician.

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Lücking by profession before fitter and worked from 1930 to 1945 at the National Railroad . In the 1920s and early 1930s he took on functions in the Union of Railway Workers in Germany . From 1922 to early May 1933, Lücking represented the SPD in the Paderborn city council.

At the beginning of the National Socialist rule Lücking was exposed to various reprisals. On May 2, 1933, in connection with the smashing of the trade unions and on the basis of a majority decision by the Paderborn city parliament, he was forced to resign. The police then took him into " protective custody " for several weeks . After his release, he was under police supervision and was hit by several house searches in the years that followed. In August 1944, Lücking was again imprisoned by the Gestapo for several weeks in connection with the Gewitter campaign. Then he was again under the supervision of Nazi persecutors until the end of the war.

After the Second World War , Lücking took an active part in the reconstruction of Paderborn. In July 1945 he was appointed to the city's citizens' committee. He became a member of the SPD again, was a member of its district committee in East Westphalia-Lippe and for years chairman of the party's Paderborn branch. From September 1946 to September 1964 Lücking was a member of the city council of Paderborn. He was also a co-founder of the Workers' Welfare Association in Paderborn. Lücking also took on several functions in the union of German railway workers .

In 1946 Lücking received a mandate in the appointed Provincial Council of Westphalia . He was also a member of the appointed Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from October 1946 to April 1947 . From 1953 to 1961 Lücking was a member of the Westphalia-Lippe Landscape Assembly .

In Paderborn a street is named after Lücking.

literature

• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution - resistance - emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 566 f . (Short biography).

Web links

• Heinrich Lücking at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia