Heinrich Rürup

Heinrich Rürup (born June 11, 1876 in Unna , † September 17, 1954 in Essen ) was a German politician ( center ).

Life

Heinrich Rürup was born the son of a master brewer. After graduating from primary school, he attended the municipal rectorate school in Soest from 1888 to 1892 and then worked in the mining industry. In addition to his professional activity, he attended the mining advanced training school in Kamen from 1898 to 1900 and the Bochum mining school from 1900 to 1902 , where he received the certificate of qualification as a technical mine official. From 1902 to 1903 he worked as a foreman at the Dorstfeld colliery in Dortmund , then in the Essen coal mining industry. He was involved in the Christian trade union , took an economics course in Munich-Gladbach in 1903 and worked from 1908 to 1920 as an editor for the association newspaper Der Bergknappe of the trade union of Christian miners in Germany . In 1920 he became a board member and director of the Rheinisch-Westphalian coal syndicate . In this position he mainly dealt with mine safety.

Rürup joined the Center Party and was a councilor in Altenessen from 1909 until it was incorporated in 1915 . He then became a city councilor for Essen. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly . In February 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1932.

literature

• Rürup, Heinrich . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 616 .
• Office of the Prussian Landtag (ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Issue for the 1st electoral term. Prussian publishing house, Berlin 1921, p. 297.
• Herbert Kühr: Parties and elections in the city and district of Essen during the Weimar Republic. With special consideration of the relationship between social structure and political elections. In: Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 49, Düsseldorf 1973, p. 60.