Heinrich Wattendorff

Grave of Heinrich Wattendorff (right) and his wife Therese née Stadler (1858–1945) in the old cemetery in Ibbenbüren.

Heinrich Wattendorff (occasionally by mistake also Wattendorf ; born April 3, 1845 in Ibbenbüren , † February 14, 1909 there ) was a German politician .

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Heinrich Wattendorff grew up as the sixth child of Ibbenbüren merchant Bernhard Anton Wattendorff, a brother of the Borghorst textile manufacturer Joseph Wattendorff . He attended high school in Feldkirch ( Vorarlberg ) from 1859 to 1862 and a high school in Münster from 1862 to 1865 . After graduating from high school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and traveled to England , France , Sweden , Norway , Austria-Hungary and Italy before settling down as a businessman in his hometown Ibbenbüren. As a member of the Center Party , Wattendorf was a city councilor and member of the Tecklenburger district council .

From February 1890 until his death, Wattendorff represented the constituency of Münster 4 administrative district, which included Lüdinghausen , Warendorf and Beckum , as a member of the Reichstag for the Center Party . In 1890 Wattendorff was nominated by the local Center Party against the will of the regional organization of the center. The agrarian wing of the Center Party then sent its own center candidate into the election campaign. In the Reichstag elections in 1898 and 1903, too, he had to prevail over Baron Ignatz von Landsberg-Steinfurt, an internal party candidate from the agrarian wing of the center.

In addition, from January 29, 1903, until his death, Wattendorff was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Münster 2, which was formed from Steinfurt and Ahaus .

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 135.
^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 688-690.

literature

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 169 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
German Reichstag. Biographical-statistical handbook, founded by Joseph Kürschner. 1903-1908. XI. Electoral term. Published by Hermann Hilger, Berlin and Leipzig 1903.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Wattendorff in the catalog of the German National Library
Heinrich Wattendorff in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	Wattendorff, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wattendorf, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ibbenbueren
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1909
Place of death	Ibbenbueren

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 135.

[2] Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 688-690.