Horst Huisgen

Horst Huisgen (born November 29, 1913 in Mittel-Lazisk , Pleß district , † February 26, 2002 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP , FDP ) and was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and a National Socialist functionary during the Nazi era.

Life

Huisgen became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 768.161) on December 1, 1931, and of the Hitler Youth (HJ) in 1932 . In 1934 he passed the Abitur at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Oberrealschule in Breslau . He then studied law for five semesters in Breslau and Berlin and worked in agriculture. From 1934 he worked full-time for the HJ, in which he had been leader of the HJ sub-ban Breslau-Land-Neumark from March 1933 to May 1934. He was also a councilor in Breslau.

From May to December 1934, Huisgen was the leader of the HJ ban Reichenbach / Eule , from December 1934 to January 1938 the chief of staff in the HJ area management for Silesia . In April 1937 he was promoted to HJ Oberführer. From January 1938 he was the main consultant in the staff of the Reich Youth Leadership and there as a member of the HJ deployment staff. From May 1939 he was in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) as head of Section II / 6 Youth and Sport, responsible for youth issues, physical training, military policy, air protection, labor service, student issues and sport. Huisgen developed activities to promote German sport abroad in cooperation with the Reich Sports Management , the foreign organization of the NSDAP and the Foreign Office . He acted as the Hitler Youth liaison leader to the RMVP and worked from December 1940 to February 1941 as general commander in chief of the Hitler Youth area in Upper Silesia . In February 1941 he resigned from the service of the RMVP at the request of the Reich Youth Leadership and had been the leader of the Hitler Youth area in Upper Silesia in Katowice since March 1941 . In November 1941 he was promoted to chief commander. From 1941 to 1945 he was a department head at the Provincial Administration of Upper Silesia as well as head of the State Youth and Sports Office and senator of the Chamber of Labor.

From September 1939 Huisgen served as a sergeant in the war (on leave from the Wehrmacht in December 1940 ). He took part in various infantry units in the attack on Poland and in the war against the Soviet Union and suffered several wounds. As a result he became a reserve officer in the Greater Germany division . At the end of the war he became an American prisoner of war and was interned in internment camp 75 Kornwestheim in 1945. After his release on October 30, 1946, he worked as a self-employed sales representative. Since 1950 he worked for the FDP Lower Saxony as general manager. From August 1955 he worked as a freelancer in business.

From December 4, 1951 to May 5, 1963, Horst Huisgen was a member of the FDP parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament (2nd to 4th electoral period). He was also secretary of the Lower Saxony state parliament from May 12, 1959 to May 5, 1963. For the FDP he worked from May 30, 1961 to May 5, 1963 as deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. a. Chairman of the Forest Affairs Committee from November 23, 1954 to May 5, 1955 and Secretary from May 12, 1959 to May 5, 1963.

Huisgen died on February 26, 2002.

literature

• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 164f ( online as PDF) .
• 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. 177.
• Hans-Peter Klausch : On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period (PDF; 1.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minutes of the plenary 14/100. Lower Saxony State Parliament, March 12, 2002, p. 9903