Helmut Rother

Helmut Rother (born June 10, 1920 in Ratibor in Upper Silesia , † March 23, 1971 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the state parliament , city councilor and mayor in the small Mecklenburg town of Brüel .

Life

Helmut Rother attended elementary school until 1934 and the vocational school in Leobschütz until 1937 , where he trained as a textile merchant. After the commercial assistant examination, Rother worked as a decorator in Zeitz and Trier . In 1940 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Wehrmacht as a soldier. After returning from British captivity in 1947, Rother joined the CDU and became the party's foreign secretary in the Brüel district. Soon he also took over the chairmanship of the Brüeler Union. In 1947 the city council elected him to the honorary city councilor for trade and supply as well as social welfare, in 1950 Rother became mayor of the small town. After the party purge in spring 1950, he moved to the Mecklenburg state parliament, to which he also belonged in the second electoral term. For a few days before the dissolution of the state parliament in July 1952, Rother officiated as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

literature

• LHAS 6.11-1-300, Mecklenburg State Parliament 1946-1952, personnel documents and characteristics of departed MPs 1948-1952
• Christian Schwießelmann: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the foundation to the dissolution of the regional association. A representation of party history . Droste, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-7700-1909-0 , ( research and sources on contemporary history 58).