Heinz Frehsee

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Heinz Frehsee (3 from left) in Bonn in April 1967

Heinz Frehsee (born August 30, 1916 in Stobnitt / East Prussia , † September 17, 2004 ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

Frehsee, who was of Protestant faith, attended the "German Private Gymnasium" in West Prussia , where he passed his Abitur in 1935. He then completed an agricultural apprenticeship until 1937. After the Reich Labor Service he became an estate administrator in Thuringia . During the Second World War he was a soldier, temporarily interrupted by studying agriculture at the University of Leipzig .

After the Second World War, Frehsee came to West Germany as a displaced person . He initially worked as a sawmill and farm worker, but in 1947 he became a full-time employee of the horticultural, agricultural and forestry union as district secretary in Uelzen . In 1949 he became head of the wage and collective bargaining policy and agricultural policy departments at the federal executive board. From 1956 to 1959 he was finally national chairman of his union and also a member of the DGB federal executive committee. From 1949 to 1955, Frehsee was also Vice President of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture and then a member of the board. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Agricultural Workers. From 1956 to 1991 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Agrarian Social Society in Göttingen.

MP

Frehsee was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1976 and achieved the direct mandate in the Bundestag constituency of Hameln-Springe . From 1965 to 1972 he was chairman of the building and space commission of the Bundestag executive committee. From 1969 to 1972 Frehsee was the first parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, after having been second parliamentary group manager since January 27, 1967.

From February 14, 1973 to January 19, 1977 he was also a member of the European Parliament .

Honors

  • 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1973: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1976: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

  1. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.