Hermann Meyer (politician, 1923)

Hermann Meyer (born September 23, 1923 in Bevensen, Uelzen district, † January 15, 1995 in Bad Bevensen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP , SPD ). He was mayor of Bevensen and belonged to the state parliament of Lower Saxony from 1963 to 1978.

biography

education and profession

Meyer finished school in 1940 with a secondary school leaving certificate. He became a soldier in the Waffen SS in 1942 . In 1946 he came out of captivity as a severely disabled person.

He then worked as a savings bank employee.

politics

He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1941. After the war he joined the SPD.

Since 1960 Meyer was a member of the city council of Bevensen and from 1968 mayor of the city. In 1964 he became a member of the district council of the Uelzen district and in 1972 a member of the council of the joint municipality of Bevensen. On May 20, 1963 Meyer entered the fifth electoral term of the Lower Saxony state parliament , to which he was a member until the end of the eighth electoral term on June 20, 1978. From May 5, 1976 to June 20, 1978 he was Chairman of the Committee on Social and Health Services.

Further memberships

Meyer has been active in the social field since 1956. Since 1962 he had been a member of the federal executive committee of the Reich Association of War Victims and Civilian Disabled, social pensioners and surviving dependents . In 1965 he became chairman of the Lower Saxony regional association of the Reichsbund and a year later the second federal chairman of the Reichsbund. From 1979 to 1988 he was the federal chairman of the Reich Association of War Victims, Disabled People, Social Pensioners and Survivors. He was a member of the War Victims Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs and a member of the judges' selection committee in the Ministry of Social Affairs. Meyer was also a member of the foundation senate of the Heidelberg vocational support organization.

Honors

In 1978 Meyer was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the First Class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 253.