Helmut Caspar

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Helmut Caspar (born July 19, 1921 in Wallenrod ; † August 5, 1980 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament .

Life

After elementary and vocational school, Helmut Caspar attended various agricultural technical schools until 1938 and then worked as a self-employed farmer. From 1940 to 1945 he did military service, was wounded and taken prisoner of war.

As an SPD member, he was honorary mayor from 1952 and a member of the district council of the Lauterbach district , where he led the SPD parliamentary group. After the regional reform in Hesse in 1972, he was a member of the district council in the Vogelsberg district and city councilor of Lauterbach. There he had been city councilor since 1972.

From January 2, 1963 to November 30, 1978 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament. In 1964 he was a member of the 4th Federal Assembly .

NSDAP membership

In a study published in 2011 by historian Hans-Peter Klausch on behalf of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament , Helmut Caspar's membership in the NSDAP is revealed. According to this study, he was accepted as a member of the NSDAP on September 1, 1939, under membership number 7.118.443. The study points out that Caspar applied for membership at the age of 17 and was one of those who “can be seen as young victims of years of indoctrination, from which they broke free after the war at the latest”.

Honors

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 227 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
  2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 103, June 5, 1973.
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 19, January 27, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallenrod
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1980