Heinz Beck (politician)

Heinz Beck (born September 10, 1914 in Leipzig , † May 10, 1975 in Geneva ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1946 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and left parliament in 1953 after disputes with the state government.

Life

Beck was active in the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) as a sub-district manager in Leipzig from 1929 . He was also the district representative of the Saxon SAJ in Berlin. He then joined the SPD. In 1932 he began studying economics and political science in Berlin and was arrested in 1933. Shortly after his release in August 1933, he began illegal political work that forced him to flee to Brussels in 1936. In 1940 he was evacuated to France, where he studied French economic history and modern political history, among others with Marc Bloch . In 1941 he joined the French resistance group Témoinage Chrétien around Jean Pierre Teitgens and fled to Switzerland in 1942. Here he became a member of the Organization Free Germany . Only after the end of the war did he return to Germany and begin to work in the newly founded SPD. From March 1946 he became a consultant in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Vice President of the Bavarian Youth Association . In mid-1949, at the instigation of the youth department of the American military government in Bavaria, he traveled to the United States as a member of a delegation (which included Karl Maly ( BJR ), Anton Graßl, Helene Guyot, Lilo Ramdohr , Willy Ginhold ( DGB ) and Alfred Christmann) . The delegates were given modern knowledge of youth psychology, and this was the first time they were incorporated into German youth work in the post-war period.

politics

Beck was elected to the Bavarian state parliament in the state elections in 1946 in the constituency of Upper Bavaria. In the first legislative period he was a full member of the State Budget Committee and the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. He was also chairman of the committee for cultural policy issues and a full member of the committee for economics. Beck was one of the representatives of Bavaria in the first federal assembly . After personal conflicts with the Bavarian government, Beck returned to Geneva at the end of 1951, but was still officially a member of the Bavarian state parliament until October 22, 1953. Representative Josef Gareis followed as his substitute .

Web links

• Heinz Beck in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Heinz Beck as 2nd President of the BJR