Hellmut Sieglerschmidt

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Hellmut Sieglerschmidt around 1970
The grave of Hellmut Sieglerschmidt and his wife Elsa in the family grave in the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde in Berlin.

Hellmut Sieglerschmidt (born October 17, 1917 in Berlin ; † March 1, 1992 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the Bundestag and the European Parliament .

Life

Sieglerschmidt, who came from a conservative family and had been a member of the Bündische Jugend , later the Hitler Youth , was confronted after 1933 with the fact that he was a Jewish half-race . His mother later stated that she came from an extramarital relationship with her mother. The racial investigation she initiated in 1939 at the Reich Office for Family Research was successful. Her two children, Helene and Hellmut, no longer belonged to the immediate circle of those persecuted. As in many families with similar problems, the "flaw" of Jewish origin was not only kept silent during the time of National Socialism, but also afterwards.

Sieglerschmidt studied business administration from 1937 to 1940 , the only degree that was allowed to him given his Jewish origins. He then had to go to war and fight in Russia, where he was wounded. In 1945 he fled West Prussia to Mecklenburg . In Bromberg as well as in Parchim and Schwerin he initially worked in the administrative service. During this time he became a member of the LDPD , which he had joined as a substitute because he did not want to join the SED that was created by the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . For the LDPD, he was a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament from 1946 to 1947 . In 1947 the NKVD wanted to recruit him for spy services, from which he escaped by fleeing to the west , to Hanover . There he immediately joined the SPD . Until 1950 he worked for the Hanover press . In 1952 he became Lauritz Lauritzen's personal assistant in the Lower Saxony state service. In 1955 he moved to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne, only to move to the Senate Department of the Interior in Berlin a year later, where he worked under Joachim Lipschitz and, after his death, Heinrich Albertz . In the early 1960s he was appointed Senate Councilor to the Senator for Science and Art, then Werner Stein , and in this function negotiated the Concordat between the State of Berlin and the churches. Hellmut Sieglerschmidt was married to Elsa Ohst and has four children, two daughters and two sons.

politics

On June 4, 1969, Sieglerschmidt moved to the German Bundestag for the deceased Hans Wellmann during the fifth legislative period . He was a member of the Bundestag until the end of the eighth legislative period in 1980. In parliament he was a full member of the Interior Committee for the first three terms. In the sixth to eighth electoral terms he was also, with the exception of a few months from March to May 1972, when he was a full member, a deputy member of the Legal Affairs Committee. In 1977 he was sent to the European Parliament and was elected for a legislative period in the first European elections in 1979. He had previously been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In 1984 he retired from politics for reasons of age. He died in an accident in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1992. His estate is administered by the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn .

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personal data
SURNAME Sieglerschmidt, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieglerschmidt, Hellmut senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1992
Place of death Las Palmas de Gran Canaria