Heinrich Mehrhof
Heinrich Mehrhof (born December 14, 1876 in Höringhausen , Frankenberg district; † September 8, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main by suicide ) was a German politician (SPD, USPD).
Live and act
After attending primary school in Höringhausen, Mehrhof worked in agriculture from 1891 to 1894, then as a miner in coal mines in Westphalia and the Rhineland until 1897. From 1897 to 1910 he earned his living as a metal worker. He then became a journalist for the SPD press , which he joined around 1895. In parallel to these diverse professional activities, he continued to develop himself through self-study and took part in economic and historical courses.
From 1915 to 1917 Mehrhof took part in the First World War, from which he returned home as a war disabled. He then became editor of the newspaper Tribüne in Erfurt.
Mehrhof had already left the SPD during the war to join the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which was further to the left . He took over the district chairmanship of the USPD for Thuringia and sat from June 1920 to May 1924 as a member of the USPD in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , in which he represented constituency 13 (Thuringia). He was also a member of the Prussian state constituent assembly . After the USPD collapsed, Mehrhof returned to the SPD, for which he was again a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1928 to 1932 .
Web links
- Heinrich Mehrhof in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehrhof, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD, USPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Höringhausen , Frankenberg district |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1946 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |