Franz Holthus

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Franz Holthus (born July 31, 1909 in Messingen (Lingen district), † November 14, 1990 in Thuine ) was a German politician ( center ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After attending elementary school, Holthus worked in agriculture and participated in World War II. Since 1950 he was the managing director of the Lower Saxony Farmers, Tenants and Settlers Association for the Emsland district. This organization of hirers and new settlers was in a fierce battle for the rights of the sub-peasant strata of the Emsland with the peasant "Association of the Emsland Rural People". Due to the decline of the hireling system, he was only able to continue this activity until 1987, although in the last two decades he mainly had to look after the old age of the former hirers.

Holthus was a man from the center, who in the Lingener Land tied the rural lower classes like the hired workers to the party. He made a major contribution to the fact that the center was still well represented in the Lingen region until the early 1960s. In 1951 he received 3.1 percent of the valid votes as a candidate for the center in the constituency 88 (Bentheim). In the second electoral term he was from December 10, 1953 to May 5, 1955 as a replacement for Otto Krapp member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. The Landtag elected him a member of the second Federal Assembly , which in 1954 re-elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President. In 1957 he ran for the "Federal Union", the electoral merger of the Center Party with the Bavarian Party, as a direct candidate in constituency No. 27 Bersenbrück-Lingen. In 1956 he became one of eight Center MPs in the Lingen district assembly. He later joined the CDU, for which he ran for the district council in 1964. Holthus died on November 14, 1990 in Thuine.

source

  • Bernhard Fritze: Thoughts on the once influential Center Party and my time as a member of the Center in the Lingen district council, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte 16, Haselünne 2009, pp. 381–401.
  • Helmut Lensing / Bernd Robben: “When the farmer whistles, then the hirers have to come!” - Considerations and research on hiring in north-west Germany, Haselünne 2016 (5th edition), pp. 262, 263.
  • 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. 172.


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical note on www.kgparl.de, accessed on July 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Holthus, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Brass
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1990
Place of death Thuine