Heinz Rudolph (politician, 1922)

Heinz Rudolph , also: Heinrich Rudolph (born June 7, 1922 in Elberberg , Wolfhagen district ; † December 11, 2001 ) was a German politician ( DP , CDU , NPD ) and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After finishing elementary school, Heinz Rudolph attended a technical school and completed an agricultural apprenticeship in western and eastern Germany. He then studied at the University of Kiel , where he graduated as a qualified farmer. In 1940 he joined the NSDAP . In the Second World War he was a combatant from 1940 to 1945. He was used in the German-Soviet War and with the infantry in Italy; he suffered three wounds. From 1943 he was a reserve officer , most recently as a company commander and battalion adjutant . In Italy he was taken prisoner by the British until the end of 1945. After the end of the war, he worked as a self-employed farmer from 1950. In 1959 he became a reserve officer and captain in the Bundeswehr .

After belonging to the DP, he was a CDU member from 1960 to 1965, then from 1965 a member of the NPD.

Rudolph was a member of the district board of the Lower Saxony rural people and a member of the board of directors of the Bockenemer Kreissparkasse. In 1952 he became a council member and in 1956 mayor. From June 6, 1967 to June 20, 1970 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (6th electoral term), and he was parliamentary group leader of the NPD from July 1, 1968 to June 20, 1970.

He was married and had two children.

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. 318.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Kühnl : The NPD. Structure, program and ideology of a neo-fascist party (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 318). 2nd Edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 229.