Helmuth Harries

Helmuth Harries (born July 5, 1902 in Nienburg / Weser , † December 26, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Helmuth Harries attended an agricultural school and initially became an agricultural assistant. Later he became union secretary of the central association of agricultural workers at the Christian-national German trade union federation in Liegnitz (Silesia) . In 1926 he was appointed head of the central association in the Lower Saxony district and in 1930 he was appointed head of the central association in Berlin. There Harries was editor of the union newspaper and lecturer at the Christian-National Rural Elementary School and the Evangelical-Social School Spandau . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was disciplined in 1933 and took over a wholesale business. In 1939 Harries joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Then he was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

After the Second World War , Harries joined the CDU in 1945 and co-founded the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) in 1948 . In the same year he became honorary chairman of the horticultural, agricultural and forestry union for twenty years . From 1952 he worked as a consultant for social policy at the CDU Berlin . Since Charles Schmidt was a district councilor in the Wedding district , Harries moved up to the Berlin House of Representatives in March 1955 . In the 1958 election he was re-elected to parliament. In 1960 he became managing director of the Evangelical Workers' Union in Berlin. In the following election in 1963 , Harries was elected to the district assembly in Wedding. In the 1967 election , despite his age, he was re-elected to the House of Representatives, and at the end of the 1971 legislative period he was eliminated.

Harries was a member of the Provincial Synod Berlin-Brandenburg .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 117 (331 pages).