Helmut Mehnert

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Heinz Helmut Erhard Mehnert (born October 22, 1910 in Zwickau ; † unknown) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and functionary in the GDR CDU .

Life

Mehnert was born in Zwickau, Saxony, and was a member of the Christian Young Men Association as a student . From 1930 to 1934 he studied theology in Leipzig . However, after the National Socialists came to power, he got into disputes with them several times, which in February 1934 led to several months' imprisonment. Nevertheless, following his arrest in July 1934, he was able to take his first state examination. After that, Mehnert was not given a parish office, but was transferred as vicar to Kemnitz in Upper Lusatia in 1937 , where he was given the pastor's post in 1939. As a result, Mehnert was constantly in conflict with the National Socialist rulers, which led to several court and honorary court proceedings. He was also in contact with the resistance group around Carl Goerdeler .

After the war ended, Mehnert was one of the founders of the CDU district group in Bernstadt in November 1945 . He became increasingly politically active and a few months later became chairman of the CDU district association Löbau . At the state party conference of the Saxon CDU in June 1950, the pro-communist functionaries around Josef Rambo , who was elected as the new state chairman, won. Mehnert was next to Otto Freitag and Magnus Dedek deputy state chairman (fourth state chairman) of the Saxon CDU.

In July 1950 he was elected State Secretary of the State Peace Committee of Saxony. At the 5th party congress of the CDU in September 1950, Mehnert was elected to the main board of the CDU and at the same time set up as his party's candidate for the People's Chamber and elected in October 1950. However, Mehnert was increasingly critical of the party leadership around the aged Otto Nuschke and General Secretary Gerald Götting . This culminated in a decision by the main board in the spring of 1951, which imposed on Mehnert abstinence from party political activity until the conclusion of an internal party investigation. Since Mehnert did not comply with this decision, the office of deputy Saxon state chairman was withdrawn from him in April 1951, and in autumn 1951 he was expelled from the party and applied to withdraw his seat in the People's Chamber. However, the party did not initially succeed in doing so because of the People's Chamber's rules of procedure. Mehnert was able to continue to exercise his mandate as a non-attached member of parliament until 1954. At the meeting of the political committee of the CDU main board on January 5, 1954, it was decided to propose Franz Eiselt as successor to the Presidium of the People's Chamber . It is unclear whether this change in mandate took place. Nothing is known about the further work of Helmut Mehnert. His wife Irmgard Mehnert was a member of the CDU parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament from 1948 as a pastor in Kemnitz until 1950 . With regard to German reunification, she expressed hope in an article for the CDU newspaper Neue Zeit : One day the day will come that will bring us this unity.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish book Saxony online
  2. ^ Our candidates on October 15, 1950 . In: Neue Zeit from October 15, 1950, p. 1.
  3. ^ Neue Zeit , June 27, 1950, p. 2
  4. ↑ Pastor Mehnert called . In: Neue Zeit , July 28, 1950, p. 2.
  5. ↑ New CDU MPs . In: Neue Zeit , April 10, 1948, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Neue Zeit , July 3, 1949, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Mehnert, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehnert, Heinz Helmuth Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, functionary (CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century