Heinrich Steinfeldt
Heinrich Steinfeldt (born October 31, 1892 in Wilhelmsburg , † November 15, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German politician, member of the Hamburg citizenship , a member of the Reichstag and a trade union official.
Life
1892 to 1919
Heinrich Steinfeldt attended elementary school in Hamburg, Warnemünde and Wilhelmsburg. From 1907 to 1910 he trained as a carpenter in Hamburg and then went on a hike . At the beginning of his apprenticeship he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAP) in 1907 and at the end of 1910 he joined the SPD and the trade union. On the Walz, too, he organized himself with like-minded people in Basel and became secretary in the local carpenter's association.
After the wandering he went back to Hamburg and shortly afterwards experienced the First World War as a soldier.
Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism
In April 1919 he was sent as a delegate to the 2nd Council Congress in Berlin. During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1919 to 1933 . He was the youngest parliamentarian in the first fully freely elected citizenship. In the years 1919 to 1921 and 1932/33 he belonged to the SPD regional association. In his work as a parliamentarian, he was a member of several municipal authorities and institutions (for example as a member of the building authority and member of the supervisory board of the Hamburg waterworks). In 1930 he had run as a candidate in constituency 34 (Hamburg) for the German Reichstag , but was unsuccessful.
On March 8, 1933, he was temporarily arrested along with many other Social Democrats. No incriminating material was found in the subsequent house search and the charges were dropped. On June 12, 1933, he succeeded the Hamburg MP Adolf Biedermann, who had died under unexplained circumstances, in the German Reichstag.
He also began to get involved in trade union work immediately after the First World War. In 1920 he became chairman of the Association of Carpenters in Hamburg. He carried out this activity until 1933. From 1921 he was also a union secretary at the central association of carpenters and related professionals in Germany. Most recently he was Chairman of the Paying Agent. After the union was taken over in 1933, he was dismissed without notice on May 5 of the same year.
In addition to his partisan and trade union work, he was the leader of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, which is close to the Social Democrats . He headed the Gau Hamburg-Bremen-Nordhannover of the organization.
He was unemployed until October 1934, but was then able to find a job in a carpentry business. Nevertheless, he was still under police supervision until mid-1935. In 1944, at the age of 52, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. But he was released again before the end of the Wehrmacht's surrender.
post war period
After the Second World War , Heinrich Steinfeldt was a member of the Hamburg parliament again from 1946 until his death in 1955 (1st to 3rd electoral term). For his group he sat, among other things, as chairman of the working committee . From 1950 until the election defeat against the “ Hamburg Block ” in 1953 he was parliamentary group leader of his party. He was then replaced by the former senator and later mayor Paul Nevermann . In his function as a parliamentarian, he was a member of the advisory board and later of the supervisory board of the Neue Heimat from 1945 to 1955, and since 1948 a member of the board of the Alte Volksfürsorge.
He also resumed his union work and was instrumental in rebuilding the organization. From March 1946 to April 1947 he was a member of the Zone Committee of the Unions in the British Zone . The umbrella organization of the trade unions and later the DGB elected him chairman of the Nordmark district. He carried out this activity until his death. He was also a member of the DGB Federal Committee.
Honor
In 1962, Steinfeldtstrasse in Hamburg-Billstedt was named after him.
literature
- Henning Timpke (ed.): Documents on the conformity of the State of Hamburg 1933. Frankfurt a. M. 1964.
- SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, p. 145.
Web links
- Heinrich Steinfeldt's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Heinrich Steinfeldt's biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
- Heinrich Steinfeldt in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ At this point in time, Wilhelmsburg does not yet belong to Hamburg. It was not connected to the Hanseatic city until 1937 with the Greater Hamburg Act .
- ↑ 60 years of the SPD parliamentary group (pdf; 503 kB)
- ↑ Hamburg address book 1965, street directory: Volume III. Streets, plans, alphabet: B. Residents, companies and authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg by streets . S. 1635 ( online ).
Erich Klabunde (1946–1949) | Gerhard Neuenkirch (1949–1950) | Heinrich Steinfeldt (1950–1953) | Paul Nevermann (1953–1957) | Gerhard Brandes (1957–1965) | Oswald Paulig (1965–1970) | Gerhard Brandes (1970–1972) | Hans-Ulrich Klose (1972–1973) | Ulrich Hartmann (1973–1982) | Henning Voscherau (1982–1987) | Paul Busse (1987–1989) | Günter Elste (1989–1996) | Elisabeth Kiausch (1996–1997) | Holger Christier (1997–2001) | Uwe Grund (2001–2002) | Walter Zuckerer (2002–2004) | Michael Neumann (2004–2011) | Andreas Dressel (2011–2018) | Dirk Kienscherf (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinfeldt, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdR, MdHB and trade union official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1955 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |