Heinrich Roth (politician)
Heinrich Roth (born July 8, 1889 in Holler , † November 25, 1955 in Montabaur ) was a Nassau politician ( center ), mayor and district administrator and former member of the Reichstag and the Prussian state parliament .
education and profession
After attending primary school, Heinrich Roth did an apprenticeship as a printer and works in the profession he had learned. He attended an economic training course at the headquarters of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany in Mönchengladbach and had worked as a secretary for the association in Montabaur since May 1924. At the same time he was chairman of the AOK of the Unterwesterwaldkreis .
Politics in the Weimar Republic
Heinrich Roth was a member of the district council in the Unterwesterwaldkreis. From April 4, 1923 to July 1, 1923 he was acting head of the district office. He was then expelled from the French occupation authorities in connection with the separatist riots. After his return, he was elected Mayor of Montabaur on February 18, 1926 .
In 1920 he was elected to the Nassau municipal parliament for the Unterwesterwaldkreis . In May 1924 he was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau) on the list of the center, to which he belonged until November of the same year. From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament and from January 1930 to May 1932 a member of the Prussian State Council . From November 1929 Heinrich Roth was state chairman of the Center Party in Nassau.
time of the nationalsocialism
With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 Roth was provisionally dismissed from his post as mayor on April 2 1,933th On November 29, 1933, the new rulers ordered their final dismissal. He also lost the mandates in the municipal and state parliament. In 1933 Roth's apartment was devastated by the SA and Heinrich Roth was taken into " protective custody ".
From 1934 to 1939 Roth worked as a sales representative until he was banned from working. In the underground he tried to maintain contacts with the politicians of the center. After the assassination attempt on Hitler as part of the Gewitter campaign , he was arrested and only released on October 20, 1944 for incapacity for prison. Until the end of the war he was under police supervision and was not allowed to leave Montabaur.
post war period
In 1945 Heinrich Roth was reappointed Mayor of Montabaur. In 1946 he was elected to the district administrator of the Unterwesterwaldkreis. In 1947, however, the French occupation forces decided that he would be released. Heinrich Roth then became district administrator of the St. Goar district from November 20, 1947 until his retirement on July 31, 1955 .
literature
- Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 271-272.
- Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term, 1933, ZDB -ID 555332-5 , p. 375.
- Bernd Schrupp: Heinrich Roth 1889-1955. Nassau Prussian, mayor and district administrator. A political biography about four times of the Germans , Montabaur 2017 (= series of publications on the city history of Montabaur 13), ISBN 978-3-9811308-6-7 .
Web links
- Heinrich Roth in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Entry on Heinrich Roth in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center), MdR, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holler |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1955 |
| Place of death | Montabaur |