Hermann Meyer (politician, 1887)

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Hermann Meyer (born October 30, 1887 in Dorp near Solingen , † December 13, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German ministerial official and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Hermann Meyer was born the son of a factory worker. He attended elementary school from 1893 to 1901, did an apprenticeship and then worked as a packer, expedition assistant and factory worker in the Solingen steel goods industry. From 1907 to 1912 he worked as an employee at the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse , from 1912 to January 1926 as managing director of the savings and building association and from February 1926 to February 1930 as managing director of the Association of Social Construction Companies in Solingen. In 1916 he also took over the management of the Verband Sozialer Baubetriebe eGmbH, based in Berlin . From 1921 to 1930 he was a board member of Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen and board member and chairman of AOK Solingen. Since 1925 he also worked as an editor for the papers for housing . In March 1930 he was appointed ministerial director to the Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare in Berlin.

In addition to his professional activities, Meyer held numerous positions in associations, advisory boards and supervisory boards, primarily in those in the housing and construction industry. He acted on both a regional and a national level. Among other things, he was a member of the supervisory board and board of directors of the Consumer Chamber of the Rhine Province , Deutsche Bau- und Bodenbank AG Berlin, Deutsche Bauhütte AG Berlin, Deutsche Wohnungsfürsorge AG Berlin, Rheinische Wohnungsfürsorge GmbH Düsseldorf, Verbandskasse Rheinischer Bauvereine GmbH Düsseldorf, the The non-profit Bauverein AG Essen, the Bauhüttenbetriebsverband GmbH Essen and the steel goods production "Solidarität" GmbH Solingen. In addition, he was a member of the board of directors of the Preussische Landespfandbriefanstalt Berlin.

Meyer joined the SPD and in 1906 became chairman of the party's youth education association in Solingen. During the November Revolution he was a member of the Solingen Workers 'and Soldiers' Council , then from 1919 to 1931 city councilor and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the Reichstag election in June 1920 , he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag . Less than a year later, in February 1921, he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged without interruption until the end of the third legislative period in 1932. In parliament he represented constituency 22 (Düsseldorf-Ost). Furthermore, he was from 1930 to 1933 Deputy Plenipotentiary of Prussia to the Reichsrat .

After the “ Prussian strike ”, Meyer was put into temporary retirement in 1932 and resigned from the Prussian civil service as a ministerial director. He then acted as chairman of the association of non-profit housing companies until 1933. He spent his old age in Berlin, where he died in 1943. His grave is on Grünbaumstrasse in Solingen.

Honors

Hermann-Meyer-Strasse in the Solingen district of Höhscheid was named after him in July 2006.

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. pp. 565-566.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. P. 1047.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hermann Meyer was the managing director of the building association. In: Solinger Tageblatt of April 27, 2015 (place of birth Dorp, date of death December 13, 1943, according to Solingen City Archives).
  2. ↑ Bergische & Solingen Personalities - Part 2. Retrieved on May 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorp
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1943
Place of death Berlin