Hubert Hönnekes

Hubert Hönnekes

Hubert Hönnekes (born April 27, 1880 in Kevelaer - Kervendonk on Gründjenshof , † March 15, 1947 ibid) was a declared opponent of National Socialism and a German politician during the Weimar Republic ( center ).

Life and work

Peter Hubert Hönnekes attended the Emmerich, Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck and Burgsteinfurt high schools . After graduating from high school, he studied philology in Innsbruck , Leipzig and Münster , where he passed his state examination in 1904. As a student he became an active member of the Catholic student associations "Teutonia-Leipzig" and Markomannia Münster in the KV , later he was also an honorary philistine of the KV association Borussia-Königsberg.

His further training took place in East Prussia: seminar year in Königsberg at the Oberrealschule auf der Burg, probationary year in Braunsberg (Ostpr.) At the grammar school. In 1906 Hönnekes became a senior teacher at the Copernicus School in Allenstein and taught history, German, religion, geography, gymnastics and swimming.

Party and MP

On December 17, 1918, at the delegates' assembly of the East Prussian Center Party in Heilsberg, he was elected party chairman, in 1919 he also became a member of the Reich Party Committee and a member of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament in Königsberg and from 1930 to March 1933 a member of the German Reichstag .

Nazi state

Hönnekes was a declared opponent of National Socialism. After the seizure of power, Hönnekes had to experience considerable repression, he was defamed, attempts were made to restrict his human contacts, and on "higher instructions" he even had to be excluded from the KV. On September 21, 1933, he was forcibly removed from school service.

Due to economic hardship - Hönnekes was married and had four children - the family moved to Loffenau / Baden in 1935, Hönnekes became a sales representative. The Secret State Police continued to observe and harass him. When he fell ill with a severe and incurable kidney disease, he was transferred to a hospital on the Lower Rhine at the instigation of the Gestapo.

literature

• Rheinische Post April 27, 1980 - Contribution to the 100th birthday,
• Rudolf Morsey , Die deutsche Zentrumspartei 1917–1923 , Düsseldorf 1966, p. 99.
• Bernd Haunfelder , member of the Reichstag of the German Center Party 1871–1933 , Düsseldorf 1999, p. 127.
• Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , p. 49.

Web links

• Hubert Hönnekes in the database of members of the Reichstag