Hellmut Riegraf

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Hellmut Riegraf (born February 4, 1909 in Heilbronn ; † April 30, 1988 there ) was a politician and resistance fighter within the Kaiser / Riegraf group and a geographer .

Life

Hellmut Riegraf was born in 1909 as the son of the Heilbronn SPD city ​​councilor Ernst Riegraf (1880–1957). In 1931 he joined the KPD , was banned from working in 1933, became a resistance fighter in the Kaiser / Riegraf group and, after the group was broken up in 1938, sentenced to three years and six months in prison.

In 1945/46 he worked in the Heilbronn employment office, first as a deputy, then from May 16, 1945 to June 30, 1946 as head of the office. In 1947 Riegraf moved to Potsdam and received his doctorate there. His dissertation from 1951 is entitled The agro-geographic landscape of north-eastern Württemberg . He later worked as a lecturer at the University of Berlin and at the PH Potsdam and wrote several textbooks for school geography lessons. He later obtained the degree of professor for economic geography and worked as such until his retirement in 1969. In 1974 Riegraf returned to his native town.

Riegraf was with Lore Riegraf, b. Sixt (1915–1990) married. His estate is in the Heilbronn city archive .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives, Contemporary History Collection, signature ZS-15012, entry on Ernst Riegraf in the HEUSS database
  2. ↑ entry of the dissertation Hellmut Riegrafs in catalog Deutsche Bibliothek
  3. ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, archive materials, signature D037-47, entry on Lore Riegraf, b. Sixt in the HEUSS database
  4. ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, archival material, entry on holdings D037, Hellmut Riegraf estate in the HEUSS database

literature

  • Markus Dieterich: It can cost us our heads. Anti-fascism and resistance in Heilbronn 1930–1939. Distel-Verlag, Heilbronn 1992, ISBN 3-923208-35-9 .
  • Uwe Jacobi : The missing council minutes. Record of the search for the unresolved past. 3. Edition. Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-921923-09-3 , p. 105

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personal data
SURNAME Riegraf, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1988
Place of death Heilbronn