Helmut Petersen

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Helmut Petersen (born September 18, 1903 in Breslau ; † July 26, 1982 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician of the GB / BHE .

Life and work

Helmut Petersen became district judge in Breslau in 1938 . In 1939 he was seconded to the government in Krakow in the area of ​​organizational and budgetary tasks. In 1941 he was transferred to Vienna as a senior government councilor . In May 1942 he became an alderman and city councilor and head of the general administration department. From 1942 to 1943 he was in the Wehrmacht and was seriously wounded. Then he returned to the Vienna municipal administration. In April 1945 he was seconded to the Salzburg regional council to serve. After 1945 he worked as a business lawyer and attorney in West Germany.

Political party

Petersen belonged to the NSDAP after 1933 . In 1950 he participated in the founding of the GB / BHE and became its state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1971 he was in contact with the founders of the National Liberal Action around Siegfried Zoglmann , but in the end did not participate in the German Union initiated by the NLA .

MP

Petersen was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957. He was chairman of the committee for questions about war victims and returnees and parliamentary director of the GB / BHE group.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Petersen, Helmut . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Pabst to Pytlik] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 930 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 221 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).