Hermann Henneicke

Hermann Henneicke (born November 2, 1886 in Soltendieck ; † May 11, 1966 ) was a German trade union official and politician of the SPD / SPS .

Life

Hermann Henneicke grew up in Flinten , where his parents owned a farm. From 1905 to 1908 he did his military service as a senior heater in a torpedo division. In 1908 he joined the SPD and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). There he held the office of shop steward for years and was active on the works council. He participated in the First World War as a shipyard fitter .

From 1922 to 1928 he worked in the SPD as second chairman of the Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen local group . From 1920 to 1923 he was a member of the state parliament of Oldenburg and from 1924 to 1929 a member of the city council in Rüstringen.

In 1929 he moved with his wife Marie Henneicke (née Dümatz) and his three daughters to Neunkirchen , where he worked for the local association of the DMV. In 1932 he was elected to the city council as an SPD member. After the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich , he emigrated to France. In exile he had loose contact with the border posts of the KPD and SPD and was involved in trade unions. In 1935 he became a member of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and in 1937 of the "Coordination Committee of German Trade Unionists in France", a resistance group in exile.

In August he returned to Germany. Although the public prosecutor did not bring charges against him, he was taken into protective custody and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He survived the death march with the help of Richard Rauch and was freed by British troops.

Until 1947 he was appointed Mayor of Eppelborn by France . He then became an employee of the city of Neunkirchen, for which he worked as a councilor and manager of the non-profit settlement company Neunkirchen . Politically, he was involved in the SPS until 1952 and then in the illegal SPD.

literature

• Luitwin Bies / Horst Bernard (eds.): For the overthrow of the Nazi regime. Resistance and persecution of anti-fascists from the Saarland . Blattlaus-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-930771-44-8 , p. 25-28 .
• Markus H. Kringel: Henneicke, Hermann (1886–1966), In: Siegfried Mielke (Ed.): Trade unionists in the Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Biographisches Handbuch, Vol. 1, Berlin 2002, pp. 188–190.
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (eds.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Emigrated metal trade unionists in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 787, 833-834 (short biography).