Hermann Ahrens

Hermann Friedrich Arnold Ahrens (born April 8, 1902 in Jerstedt , † July 14, 1975 in Salzgitter ) was a German politician ( SPD , NSDAP , GB / BHE , GDP, GPD ).

Life

After attending elementary school, Ahrens completed an administration apprenticeship with the local government in Goslar from 1916 to 1918 and was employed as a commercial clerk in industry after the First World War . From 1925 to 1933 he worked as an unskilled worker in the provincial administration in Hanover , after which he was a municipal official. In 1941/42 he took part as a soldier in various motor vehicle replacement departments and motor vehicle transport departments in the Second World War. From 1933 to 1942 he was mayor of a municipality in what would later become the town of Salzgitter , and from 1942 to 1945 first deputy and state commissioner of the Watenstedt-Salzgitter district . Between 1945 and 1947 he was interned in the Eselheide internment camp. In September 1947, the 2nd Bielefeld Spruchkammer sentenced him to a fine of 8,000 Reichsmarks as part of the denazification process . He then worked as a freelance structural planner, journalist and publishing manager, among other things.

Ahrens was a member of the SPD from 1920 to 1925 . In September 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 625.860) and was its district leader in Goslar-Land from 1933 to 1936 . For the NSDAP he was u. a. active as a Gauredner. He was also a member of the SA, most recently with the rank of SA storm leader. Ahrens joined the GB / BHE in 1950 and was state chairman of the GB / BHE in Lower Saxony from 1955 to 1961. After the merger of the GB / BHE with the DP to form the GDP , he became its member in 1961. From January 14, 1962 until his death, Ahrens was state chairman of the GDP in Lower Saxony and federal chairman of the party.

Ahrens was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1951 to 1963 . From October 19, 1965 to October 19, 1969 he was a member of the German Bundestag for one electoral term . He was elected on the basis of an electoral alliance between the GDP and the SPD in Lower Saxony via their state list. As a member of the Bundestag, he was listed as a “guest of the SPD parliamentary group”.

From June 13, 1951 to November 19, 1957, Ahrens was Lower Saxony's Minister for Economics and Transport . He later belonged again to the government and served from May 12, 1959 to June 12, 1963 as Lower Saxony's finance minister and as the state's deputy prime minister .

In 1961 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts

• We accuse! The former party comrade No. 5, Artur Dinter , Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Thuringia. In: Structure: Kulturpolitische Monatsschrift , 3, Berlin 1947, pp. 288–290.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 7-8.
• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Hannover 2012, p. 145. (PDF; 890 kB)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
• 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, pp. 17–18.

Web links

• Estate in the Lower Saxony State Archive / Main State Archive Hanover

See also

• Cabinet head IV
• Cabinet Hellwege I
• Cabinet head V
• Cabinet of Diederich I

Individual references and comments

1. ↑ Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Hanover 2012 (PDF; 890 kB), p. 145.
2. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/cocoon/barch/1000/k/k1959k/kap1_2/kap2_37/para3_8.html
3. ↑ Answer of the state government to the minor question from MPs Zimmermann, Lower Saxony State Parliament, printed matter 16/4667.
4. ^ From 1965: All-German Party of Germany, GPD.