Heinrich Waldvogt

Heinrich Waldvogt (born September 10, 1892 in Lothe , † December 5, 1976 in Steinheim in Westphalia ) was a German politician ( DDP , SPD ).

Life

Waldvogt, the son of bricklayer Friedrich Waldvogt and his wife Amalie, b. Lühmsmeier attended elementary school and was a Ziegler himself until 1912, before becoming a soldier in the First World War from 1914 to 1918was. He was badly injured and lost both lower legs. In 1918 he returned to Lothe as a war invalid. In 1919 he became a tax collector and building judge in the Lothe-Ruensiek district. In 1922 and 1925 he was charged with embezzlement and forest theft. Since 1930 he was employed as a tax secretary for an unlimited period, but in 1933 he was dismissed for political reasons and in 1934 was placed in so-called "protective custody". Until 1944 he served several prison terms, including a. because of listening to Moscow stations. In 1948 he was charged with embezzlement and was imprisoned between 1949 and 1951. In 1949 he was recognized as a "victim of fascism".

Political activity

After the First World War, he became a member of the German Democratic Party in 1919 and joined the SPD in 1929. In the state elections in Lippe in 1929 , he ran for 11th place on the SPD list for the Lippe state parliament, and on June 25, 1929, he succeeded the outgoing state parliament president Wilhelm Meier . In the state election in Lippe in 1933 he was elected to the state parliament. Since it was not possible to re-elect Heinrich Drake to the state presidium, he resigned in the opening session of the state parliament in order to have Drake move up.

1945–1947 he was mayor of the municipality of Lothe. In April 1947 he was an unsuccessful candidate in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1976 he was a member of the Lippe District Executive of the Association of War Disabled.

literature

• Biography of Heinrich Waldvogt . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)
• Hans Hüls: Voters and voting behavior in the state of Lippe in the Weimar Republic, 1974, pp. 127, 135, 137, 141, 162, 154.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 238.