Herbert Kriedemann

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Herbert Kriedemann (* 1. March 1903 in Berlin , † 20th January 1977 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After attending school, Kriedemann completed an agricultural apprenticeship and then worked as an agricultural official. He later studied agricultural science and economics in Berlin . After graduating, he worked full-time in social democratic educational work. From 1933 to 1945 he continued to work illegally in the labor movement, initially in Germany and from 1934 in exile. Via Czechoslovakia and Estonia he came to the Netherlands in 1936 , where after the German invasion in 1940 he was sentenced to imprisonment for high treason , which, however, was suspended at the request of the public prosecutor and the Gestapo . After his release from prison, he earned his living by working as an estate inspector near Magdeburg. In 1942 he was arrested again and he confessed that he was in contact with the English intelligence service. After renewed intervention by the Gestapo, he was sentenced to three years in prison for treason in the second trial , and he was again suspended .

As early as 1946, the KPD and later the SED accused Kriedemann of having worked with the Gestapo during National Socialism and thereby harming opponents of the National Socialist regime. In 1949 these allegations became the subject of a personal insult trial . However, the defendant Kurt Müller was acquitted. In the meantime, Kriedemann's activity for the Gestapo, where according to the business distribution plan of January 22, 1934, in Department III B 2 "SPD, SAP, Reichsbanner, Unions, Special Orders", was listed under the code name "S 9", is considered secure.

politics

Kriedemann joined the SPD in 1925. After the Second World War he worked in the office named after Kurt Schumacher , Dr. Schumacher in Hanover and from 1946 the SPD party executive, where he worked as a consultant for agricultural and economic policy. Kriedemann was a member of the first Lower Saxony state parliament and from 1946 to 1948 a member of the Zone Advisory Council and from 1947 to 1949 of the Economic Council of the Bizone .

Kriedemann was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1972. First elected in the constituency of Hameln - Springe in Lower Saxony directly and later in Lower Saxony ( 1953 ) and North Rhine-Westphalia ( 1957 ) via the state list, he has represented the constituency of Herne - Castrop-Rauxel in parliament since 1961 . From 1949 to 1961 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for food, agriculture and forestry, and in 1949 also the committee for the question of the seat of the federal bodies (capital city committee). From March to November 1950 he headed the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry to review imports into the United Economic Area and the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany , and in 1956/57 the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry to review processes in the import and storage center for fats .

From November 29, 1961 to February 14, 1973, Kriedemann was also a member of the European Parliament .

Honors

Publications

  • For a new agricultural policy. In: Union monthly journal . Born 1963, pp. 641–650.
  • Should the EEC fail because of the agricultural policy? In: Union monthly journal. Year 1968, pp. 521-530.

literature

  • Stefan Appelius : Herbert Kriedemann - "Preferred treatment" guaranteed by the Gestapo? In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. April 5, 1993.
  • Egon C. Heinrich , Engaged in Agricultural and European Policy: On the 65th birthday of Herbert Kriedemann. In: Social Democratic Press Service. Year 1968, edition February 27, 1968, p. 4f.
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 215.
  • Siegfried Grundmann: The informants of Gestapo commissioner Sattler. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 178-199 u. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who was Gestapo agent S9? An answer to Gustav Dahrendorf . In: Neues Deutschland , September 12, 1946.
  2. ↑ Richard Wiegand: "Who betrayed us ...". Social Democracy in the November Revolution . Revised and exp. License issue Ahriman-Verlag , Freiburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-89484-812-5 , p. 214. See also: Bruno Sattler
personal data
SURNAME Kriedemann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1977
Place of death Bad Nauheim