Heinrich Schumann (politician)
Heinrich Theodor Wilhelm Schumann (born March 13, 1869 in Ludwigslust ; † May 16, 1940 in Hamburg ) was a teacher , managing director of the Hamburg gas works, Hamburg parliamentarian and senator ( SPD ).
Life
Schumann went to school in Schneverdingen , later in Ludwigslust and from 1884 in Neukloster . After graduating from high school and doing his military service, he successfully attended the teachers' college in Neukloster from 1890 to 1892 . Schumann became a primary school teacher, the first year he worked in Crivitz before he got a job in the Hamburg State Service in the Hamburg rural area in Ochsenwerder . From 1897 to 1919 Schumann was a teacher in the Hamburg city area.
In the new elections for the Hamburg citizenship in 1919, Schumann won a mandate for the SPD, he was a member of the citizenship until 1931. Schumann was elected to the Hamburg Senate in a by-election on July 16, 1919 for the resigned Henry Everling . From January 1920 he mainly represented the department of vocational schools and in 1925, shortly after Karl Hense had resigned, he held the office of police chief. In the spring of 1925 Schumann resigned from his senatorial position and became managing director of the city's own Hamburg gas works. Schumann knew the business because he had previously been on the gas works' supervisory board. Under his leadership, the conversion to a GmbH was completed and the sales area expanded beyond the state borders of Hamburg. Even after leaving the Senate, Schumann was a member of the Hamburg finance deputation. In April 1933, after the National Socialists came to power , Schumann was dismissed from his position as managing director of the Hamburg gas works.
literature
- Article Schumann, Heinrich. In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , (short version on the Internet as a biography of Heinrich Schumann (politician) . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Leo Lippmann : My life and my official activity. Hamburg 1964, p. 296
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schumann, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schumann, Heinrich Theodor Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigslust |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1940 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |