Heinz Schmitt (politician, 1920)

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Heinz Schmitt (born August 30, 1920 in Brackwede , † October 30, 1980 in Essen ) was a German trade unionist and politician of the SPD .

Life

Heinz Schmitt attended the Lönkert School and the Brocker School, two elementary schools in Brackwede. At the Vereinigte Press- und Hammerwerke in Brackwede, a plant of the Ruhrstahl group, where his father also worked, he learned the profession of plumber and plumber. During the Second World War he was used in the Navy. In 1943 he was traveling in a torpedo boat , which hit a mine in the Bay of Danzig . Schmitt survived this incident. After he was first an American and later a British prisoner of war , he returned to Brackwede to work again at Ruhrstahl. There he was elected chairman of the works council in 1948. In 1956 he began working as a specialist secretary at IG Metall , and from 1975 he was chairman of the DGB group in Bielefeld.

Heinz Schmitt had been married to Erna, née Kauffold, since 1944. From this marriage three sons and one daughter were born.

On October 30, 1980, Schmitt died of cancer in the Essen University Hospital . He was buried on November 5, 1980 in the Brackwede cemetery.

politics

Schmitt's political career began in 1933 when he joined the Falken , the youth organization of the SPD. Since 1948 he was a member of the council of the municipality of Brackwede, which was elevated to a town in 1956 and became vacant in 1959. He was also a member of the Brackwede Office from 1952 to 1956 . In 1969 he was also elected to the district council of the Bielefeld district. On January 1, 1973, the Bielefeld district was dissolved and Brackwede was incorporated into the city of Bielefeld . Since then he was a member of the Bielefeld City Council until 1979.

Schmitt also held other posts. He was chairman of the supervisory board of the non-profit building cooperative Brackwede and he sat on the board of the AOK in Bielefeld, where he acted as alternate chairman. He was also a member of the committees of the Städtische Sparkasse Brackwede and the Sparkasse Bielefeld and the administrative committee of the Bielefeld employment office . From 1972 onwards he was a member of the leadership of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and sat there on several committees.

In the 1979 European elections , Schmitt ran successfully on the SPD's list and thus entered the European Parliament . There he was a member of the Committee on External Economic Relations. After his death, Helmut Martin Rieger succeeded him in parliament.

Public offices

From 1953 to 1956 Schmitt was the mayor of the Brackwede office. From 1969 he held the office of mayor of Brackwede until it was incorporated in Bielefeld. After that he was district chairman of the Bielefeld district of Brackwede until 1979.

Honors

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literature

  • "I would never have done alone!" . In: Neue Westfälische (Bielefelder Tageblatt), No. 201, August 30, 1980, p. 33
  • Heinz Schmitt was a lawyer for the weakest . In: Neue Westfälische (Bielefelder Tageblatt), No. 255, November 3, 1980, p. 12
  • “Heinz” will no longer “be there” . In: Neue Westfälische (Bielefelder Tageblatt), No. 255, November 3, 1980, p. 15
  • Obituaries for Heinz Schmitt in the Neue Westfälische (Bielefelder Tageblatt) on November 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1980
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackwede
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1980
Place of death eat