Hermann Schmidt (politician, 1917)

Hermann Schmidt (born February 6, 1917 in Allendorf im Dillkreis , † February 10, 1983 in Würgendorf in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1975 to 1976 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense .

education and profession

After elementary school and vocational school, he attended the foreign trade school and completed a commercial training. After passing the merchant and stenograph exams, he worked as a technical merchant, was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1938 and took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After his release from captivity, he became managing director of the Westfälische Rundschau in Siegen in 1946 and from 1952 he was an authorized signatory at Stahlwerke Südwestfalen AG.

Political party

Schmidt was a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold before 1933 , joined the SPD after the war and became chairman of the SPD Würgendorf in 1946. From 1949 to 1973 he was chairman of the Siegen-Wittgenstein subdistrict.

After the Siegener Alfons Groß, former member of the Waffen-SS , was sentenced to several years imprisonment in the Mauthausen-Gusen trial by the Hagen district court for a homicide crime, Schmidt intervened together with the Lord Mayor of Siegen, Hans Reinhardt, with the aim of pardoning Large, which the Minister of Justice, her party friend Josef Neuberger , refused.

MP

Schmidt moved into the district council of Siegen in 1948 and served as district administrator for the Siegen district from 1956 to 1958 and from 1964 to 1975 . After the municipal reorganization he was district administrator of the newly created district of Siegen-Wittgenstein until 1983 .

From July 5, 1950 to October 3, 1961, he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , where he was deputy chairman of the committee for constitutional complaints from 1957 to 1958.

From 1961 until his death, Schmidt was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was deputy chairman from 1969 to 1972 and chairman of the defense committee of the Bundestag from 1972 to 1975 .

Hermann Schmidt was drafted into the Bundestag in 1965 via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia and otherwise always as a directly elected member of the Siegen-Wittgenstein constituency .

Public offices

On March 19, 1975 Schmidt was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense in the federal government led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . A day later he received his certificate of appointment from Defense Minister Georg Leber . In the aftermath of the " Rudel Affair " in November 1976, Schmidt came increasingly under criticism from the media. He left office on December 16, 1976.

Schmidt was a colonel in the army and completed various military exercises . He was particularly interested in military intelligence and telecommunications intelligence . He provided significant support - especially as Parliamentary State Secretary in the BMVg - the planning and development of the Bundeswehr Intelligence Agency (ANBw).

See also

• Cabinet Schmidt I

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 757.
• 50 years of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country and its deputies . Düsseldorf 1996.
• Michael Hereth: The case of Rudel or the courtesy of the Nazi dictatorship. Minutes of a Bundestag debate . Reinbek near Hamburg 1977.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regionales Personenlexikon, article Alfons Groß .
2. ^ "Scrolled back ...", Siegener Zeitung of April 2, 2011

Web links

• Hermann Schmidt at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia