Hermann Heidkämper

Hermann Heidkämper (born December 27, 1866 in Buchholz ; † January 31, 1950 there ) was a German pastor and politician ( DNVP ).

Heidkämper was the son of a master shoemaker. He attended high school in Bückeburg and studied theology in Marburg and Leipzig. His ordination took place in 1893. From 1891 to 1894 he was pastor adj. in Steinbergen, before he received his own parish in Lauenhagen in 1894. From 1901 to 1933 he worked as a second pastor in Bückeburg and at the same time as a military and prison chaplain. In 1907/08 he was deputy state superintendent and spiritual member of the consistory. In 1932/33 he was again deputy state superintendent and president of the state church council.

Heidkämper was chairman of the evangelical federation and the pastors' association, chairman of the board of the Bethel hospital in Bückeburg and of the divine house in Kleinenbremen. He was considered the protagonist of the Heimat movement.

From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the state parliament of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe. After the November Revolution he was elected to the Landtag of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe in the state elections on February 16, 1919 on the DNVP's list. In 1921 he resigned and Heinrich Christoph Duhnsen succeeded him in the state parliament on September 17, 1921.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann : Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxon Parliamentarians 1919–1945, 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 145.