Heinz Mechow

Heinz Mechow (born January 28, 1922 in Bösel ; † January 17, 2008 in Lüchow ) is a German politician (SPD). He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1956 to 1959 and again from 1963 to 1967 .

Mechow first attended elementary school and then the agricultural college in Lüchow. From 1941 he was used in the war. After the end he was taken prisoner of war, in which he was held in the USA until 1948. After his release, he returned and ran his parents' farm. In 1948 he also joined the SPD and became a member of the municipal council in Bösel. Since 1952 he was a member of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district council, where he became a member of the youth committee. He later became deputy district administrator. On October 29, 1956, he replaced the deceased Johann Lange in the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until the end of the third electoral term. He was not re-elected in the next parliamentary term. Only in the fifth did he move back into the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he belonged from May 20, 1963 to June 5, 1967.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 248.