Heinrich Weitz

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Heinrich Weitz (born August 11, 1890 in Linnich , † October 30, 1962 in Duisburg ) was a German politician ( ZENTRUM , CDU ), Lord Mayor, State Minister and President of the German Red Cross .

biography

Grave of Heinrich Weitz in the Duisburg forest cemetery

After studying in Bonn and joining the K.St.V. He was Arminia from 1918 to 1920 city assessor in Aachen , then until 1927 alderman of the city of Duisburg, then from 1927 to 1933 he held the office of mayor of Trier . From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Rhineland provincial parliament, then until 1945 as a freelance lawyer in Duisburg. From 1945 to 1947 Weitz was Lord Mayor of the city of Duisburg, from 1946 to 1950 a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1947 to 1952 Minister of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

During his term as honorary president of the German Red Cross (DRK) (1952-1961) to Weitz tried place particular attention to the return of the Soviet Union in captivity and for other reasons retained civilians . His direct interlocutors on the part of the Federal Government were Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and State Secretary Walter Hallstein . On the part of the DRK, Walther Georg Hartmann , Kurt Wagner and Anton Schlögel took part in these difficult discussions alongside Weitz . After leaving this office, he was appointed honorary president in 1961.

From 1952 to 1958 Weitz held the office of President of the Rhenish Savings Bank Association.

In 1957 Weitz was awarded Trier honorary citizenship for his services to the city of Trier, in particular the construction of housing for the low-income section of the population .

Heinrich Weitz came from the old Weitz family in Linnich, who had run the Linnich watermill for generations . In the Weimar Republic he belonged to the Center Party, after the Second World War he joined the CDU. He campaigned for his hometown, which was totally destroyed in World War II , and the Rur Bridge in Linnich is still named after him today. The family's mill is now home to the renowned German Glass Painting Museum .

Honors

See also

literature

  • Kanther, Michael A .: The portrait of Heinrich Weitz (1890–1962) In: Geschichte im Westen Jg. 4 (1989), pp. 198–215. http://www.brauweiler-kreis.de/wp-content/uploads/GiW/GiW1989_2/GiW_1989_2_KANTHER_WEITZ.pdf
  • Riesenberger, Dieter (ed.): The German Red Cross, Konrad Adenauer and the prisoner of war problem. The repatriation of German prisoners of war from the Soviet Union (1952–1955). In: History and Peace Series , Vol. 7, Donat Verlag , Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-924444-82-X .
  • Riesenberger, Dieter: The struggle for the release of German prisoners of war from the Soviet Union (1952–1955). In: Overcoming the War. , Donat Verlag, Bremen 2008. ISBN 978-3-938275-44-3 , pp. 324-339.
  • Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 498-499 .
  • Riesenberger, Dieter: The German Red Cross. A story 1864–1990. Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-77260-0 .
  • Anton Schlögel : Five Presidents of the German Red Cross . In: Spirit and Shape of the Red Cross. 2nd edition, Bonn, 1988.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Riesenberger, Bremen 1994.
  2. ↑ Honorary citizen of the city of Trier .
  3. ↑ Entry on Heinrich Weitz in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database .
personal data
SURNAME Weitz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), Member of the State Parliament, President of the German Red Cross
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Linnich
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1962
Place of death Duisburg