Hermann Herberts

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Hermann Herberts (born April 4, 1900 in Cronenberg , † December 25, 1995 in Wuppertal ) was a German journalist and politician of the USPD and the SPD .

Life

After attending elementary school, Herberts completed a commercial apprenticeship and began working as an industrial clerk. He then switched to journalism and worked from 1920 to 1924 as a publishing clerk for the USPD newspaper Volkstribüne . In 1925/26 he continued his education at the State Business School in Düsseldorf . In 1927/28 he was an editor and employee of the publishing house in Siegen , Iserlohn and the Free Press in Hagen, and from 1929 he worked as an editor for the social democratic Leipziger Volkszeitung .

After the newspaper was banned by the National Socialists in 1933, Herberts worked as an independent businessman in Wuppertal from 1934 and ran a small tool factory there. After the Second World War he was again active as a journalist and from 1946 to 1951 as an editor for the social democratic Rhein-Echo . From 1953 to 1956 he headed the press office of the DGB and from 1961 to 1964 he was its managing director.

Political party

Herberts joined the USPD in 1917 and became a member of the SPD in 1922 after the party's merger with the majority socialists.

MP

Herberts was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone from 1947 to 1949 . From 1952 to 1969 he was a council member of the city of Wuppertal.

Herberts was a member of the German Bundestag from March 12, 1964, when he replaced Heinrich Deist , until 1969. In the fourth term , he was over the national list of SPD North Rhine-Westphalia moved into the Parliament and in the fifth legislative period he represented the constituency Wuppertal I .

Public offices

Herberts served as Lord Mayor of the City of Wuppertal from 1956 to 1961 and from 1964 to 1969.

Honors

Herberts was awarded the ring of honor of the city of Wuppertal in 1969 and honorary citizenship of the city of Wuppertal on April 14, 1980. Later, the primary school was Dohrer school in Wuppertal-Cronenberg in Hermann Herbert School renamed.

Works

  • On the history of the SPD in Wuppertal. Verl.-Anst. Free Press, Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1963.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "List of bearers of the ring of honor of the city of Wuppertal" ( Memento from February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on werner-steinbach.de, accessed in May 2008.