Helmut Lehmann

This article describes the politician. For the Buchtal board and DKG president see under Helmut Lehmann (mechanical engineer) .

Helmut Lehmann (1952)

Helmut Lehmann (born December 1, 1882 in Berlin ; † February 9, 1959 there ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ).

Life

Lehmann became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1903. From 1914 to 1933 he was the executive chairman of the Main Association of German Health Insurance Funds . During the Nazi dictatorship in Germany, Lehmann was imprisoned several times. In 1945 he was a member of the central committee of the SPD in Berlin. In the state elections in 1946 he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the SED . From 1949 to 1950 he was a member of the Politburo of the party executive committee of the SED , from 1950 to 1959 he was head of the GDR social security system .

Honors

tomb

Helmut Lehmann was awarded the Karl Marx Order in 1953 , and in 1957 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. After his death he was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg . Various institutions in the GDR bore his name, such as an FDGB holiday home in Johanngeorgenstadt . In 1982, the GDR's Deutsche Post issued a special postage stamp in his honor .

Journal articles (selection)

• "Reform of the Reich Insurance Code." Principles of the speaker Helmut Lehmann at the Wroclaw Health Insurance Day. In: The Socialist Doctor . Volume IV, Issue 3-4, December 1928, pp. 12-15. (Digitized version)

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 95 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Lehmann, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Eberhard Mannschatz : Lehmann, Helmut , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 348ff.
• Florian Tennstedt:  Lehmann, Helmut. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 81 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Helmut Lehmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The curriculum vitae of Helmut Lehmann on the website of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Reich Ministry of Labor 1933–1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Soon Zeuch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1985 ( online - via the Helmut Lehmann sanatorium ).
2. ↑ New Germany . October 7, 1957, p. 4.