Heinrich Strater

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Heinrich Sträter (born November 22, 1891 in Soest , † April 11, 1968 in Dortmund ) was a German trade union official and politician of the SPD . From 1947 to 1954 he was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia , from 1953 to 1961 a member of the German Bundestag and from 1958 to 1961 a member of the European Parliament .

Life

Sträter attended elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter. He worked as a locomotive heater until 1913 and then until 1930 as a locomotive driver at Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations in Hörde . In 1920 he became a works council and from 1926 to 1930 he was chairman of the Phoenix works council. From 1930 to 1933 he acted as trade union secretary and managing director of the German Metalworkers Association in Dortmund-Hörde.

Sträter joined the SPD in 1919. From 1924 to 1929 he was a member of the municipal council of Berghofen and after the incorporation from 1929 to 1933 unpaid city councilor in Dortmund. After the National Socialists came to power , he lost all political offices and trade union functions. He then earned his living as a bread seller.

After the Second World War , Sträter devoted himself to building up the trade unions in Dortmund and the surrounding area. He took over the management of the local administration of Dortmund IG Metall , became chairman of the DGB local committee in Dortmund and rose to become a leading union official. From 1948 to 1949 he was an honorary and from 1950 to 1958 executive member of the IGM federal board.

Strater continued his political career shortly before the end of the war; on April 14, 1945, after the invasion of the Americans, he and other old party members ensured the re-establishment of the SPD in Dortmund. From 1946 he was a member of the Dortmund city council. Sträter was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from April 20, 1947 to January 14, 1954. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1961 and was always directly elected in constituency 113 (Ennepe-Ruhr - Witten) . In the Bundestag he was from 1953 to 1957 a member of the committee for industrial property rights and copyright as well as the committee for reconstruction and housing, from 1957 to 1958 of the committee for labor and from 1957 to 1961 of the committee for housing, building and land law. From February 27, 1958 to November 29, 1961 he was also a member of the European Parliament .

In addition, Sträter was a member of the supervisory board of the Dortmund-Hamm consumer cooperative , chairman of the supervisory board of the non-profit housing cooperative Dortmund-Süd and deputy chairman of the Association of Westphalian-Lippian non-profit housing companies. He also received the license for the Westfälische Rundschau , which first appeared on March 20, 1946 , in early 1946 with Paul Sattler and Fritz Henßler .

Honors

Heinrich-Sträter-Strasse in Dortmund- Lücklemberg is named after Sträter .

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 854.
  • The President of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hrsg.): 60 years of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country and its deputies. (= Writings of the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 17). Düsseldorf 2006, p. 614.

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personal data
SURNAME Strater, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL, MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1968
Place of death Dortmund