Heinrich Wempe

Heinrich Wempe (born January 21, 1880 in Bühren , † May 17, 1969 in Vechta ) was a prelate and politician of the German Center Party .

Wempe was the son of Johannes Joseph Wempe and his wife Maria Anna geb. Steltenpohl. From 1894 to 1900 he attended the Antonianum Vechta high school and then studied theology and philosophy in Münster from 1900 to 1904, where he was ordained a priest on May 28, 1904 . After completing an additional degree in ancient philology, he passed the first state examination in religion, Latin, Greek and Hebrew in 1908. From 1911 he taught as a senior teacher at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck and in Cloppenburg . During the First World War he was a military nurse and a military pastor . After the end of the war, he taught at the grammar school in Cloppenburg, where he was appointed senior teacher in 1926. In 1934 he was transferred to the grammar school in Vechta. In 1947 he retired, but because of the shortage of teachers he taught at the Vechta grammar school for a few more years. He also took on worship and pastoral activities in the monastery church and in the Vechta hospital. In 1964 he was appointed papal secret chamberlain .

Wempe was a member of the German Center Party and was elected to the Oldenburg State Parliament in 1923 , to which he belonged until 1933. During this time he was group leader. In particular, Wempe campaigned for the approval of the funds for the construction of the new school at the Antonianum grammar school in Vechta and also for the expansion of the academy for teacher training in Vechta. Because of his opposition to the National Socialists , because of which he had already been transferred to Vechta, he was arrested by the Gestapo after July 20, 1944 as part of the Grid Action . At the instigation of the Bishop of Munster official Johannes Pohlschneider he was released after a few days. After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the CDU in the Vechta district .

literature

• Bernard Hachmöller, Hermann Klostermann: Wempe, Heinrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 787-788 ( online ).
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 385–386.