Hermann Dortans

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hermann Dortans (born October 6, 1898 in Dülken ; † August 8, 1976 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After attending school, Dortans completed an apprenticeship as a butcher and later passed the master's examination in the butcher's trade. In the Weimar Republic he played a key role in a cooperative experiment. According to the anarcho-syndicalist ideas of building up the first steps towards a self-sufficiency of society, he sold - after some time supra-local - in a cooperative meat products with the elimination of the intermediate trade. He was arrested in 1937 for political reasons as a participant in a resistance network and sentenced a year later to 2 ½ years in prison for preparing a treasonous enterprise . During the Second World War he was forcibly used in a penal company from 1943.

MP

Dortans was a councilor for the city ​​of Dülken from 1945 to 1961 and a councilor for the city ​​of Süchteln from 1964 to 1969 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from June 30, 1969, when he replaced the retired MP Gustav Heinemann , until the end of the electoral term in October of the same year. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Public offices

Dortans served as mayor of the city of Dülken from 1948 to 1950.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Klan and Dieter Nelles: "There is still a flame", Rhenish anarcho-syndicalists in the Weimar Republic and in Fascism, 1986, 1st edition, p. 288
  2. ↑ Landesarchiv NRW, file RW 58 No. 31696 Bl. 109/110 u. 129/130
personal data
SURNAME Dortans, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dulken
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1976
Place of death Dulken