Heinrich van de Sandt

Heinrich van de Sandt (born September 13, 1899 in Griethausen , Kleve district , † March 1, 1974 in Kleve ) was a German farmer and politician ( center , NSDAP ).

Origin and family

Heinrich van de Sandt was born as the first of seven children to the married couple Joannes Alexander Richard van de Sandt (* 1863, † 1907) and Helene Baumann (* 1866, † 1929), who ran a small farm. His brother Theodor was a politician and district administrator in the Meschede district. On May 7, 1935, Heinrich married Klara Johanna Baumann (* 1913, † 1973) in Wissel. The marriage had three children.

Professional background

After attending the elementary school in Griethausen and the grammar school in Wipperfürth , which he left with the school leaving certificate , van de Sandt joined the Imperial Navy in 1917 . He initially served on the ship SMS Friedrich der Große for almost a year and then entered the Navy School in Sønderborg , from which he was discharged in December 1918. In 1919 and 1920 he studied agriculture and economics in Bonn and Poppelsdorf. Since 1919 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Ascania Bonn .

From 1920 to 1922 van de Sandt Melker was on his parents' farm, then manager until 1927. In that year van de Sandt took over the management of the monastery courtyard, his parents' farm in Griethausen. In the 1920s he began to work in the agricultural organization, especially in the cooperative system: From 1920 until his death he was chairman of the local farmers' association in Griethausen. In addition, he began to get involved in local politics: he became a councilor in Griethausen for the center. In addition, he was dyke count of the Kleverhamm dike show or deputy dyke count of the Grieth-Griethausen dike association . In 1932 van de Sandt became part-time mayor of Griethausen and official representative of the Griethausen office.

In 1932 van de Sandt ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Center Party as a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. At Easter 1933 he joined the NSDAP. On August 16, 1933, at the suggestion of the center, he joined the National Socialist Reichstag in the replacement procedure for the resigned MP Karl Schmitz , to which he was a member until autumn 1933.

After the Second World War, van de Sandt was Mayor of Griethausen until 1969 and then Deputy Mayor of Kleve from 1969 to 1974. From 1948 to 1969 he was a member of the supervisory board and board of directors, and since 1969 honorary member of the Rheinische Waren headquarters in Cologne. From 1950 to 1970 he was also a board member of the Kleve district farming community and a member of the Chamber of Agriculture.

Web links

• Heinrich van de Sandt in the database of members of the Reichstag