Hugo Hickmann

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Hugo Hickmann (left) and Wladimir Semjonowitsch Semjonow , 1949
Grave of Hugo Hickmann in the cemetery in Langebrück

Hugo Hickmann (born September 3, 1877 in Dessau , † May 30, 1955 in Langebrück ) was a German politician ( DVP , CDU ) in the Weimar Republic and the GDR .

Life

The son of the Protestant pastor Hugo Woldemar Hickmann (1841-1922) attended grammar school in Freiberg from 1892 to 1899 . He then studied theology at the universities of Leipzig , Marburg and Tübingen from 1899 to 1903 . After passing the state exams , he was a trial teacher at the Progymnasium in Roßwein from 1903 to 1904 and a permanent teacher at the Realprogymnasium in Riesa from 1904 to 1906 . From 1906 to 1908 he taught at the teachers' college in Dresden . From 1908 he was employed as a teacher for religion at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig. In 1917 he was appointed professor . In 1926 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig .

At the church level, Hickmann was extremely active. In 1926 he became vice-president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony and in 1925 founded the regional church credit cooperative of Saxony (LKG), Germany's first Evangelical credit institution.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis Hickmann was relieved of his religious and political offices and displaced as a school teacher into early retirement. However, he continued to criticize the Nazi regime as a canon in Meißen or as a committee chairman of the German Bible Society . This earned him a ban on speaking and gathering.

After his death in 1955, the GDR leadership wanted nothing to remember him. Therefore, after the funeral, no name was written on his grave in his last place of residence, Langebrück. Since 2013, a new street named after him in Langebrück has been remembering him.

Hickmann remained single all his life.

politics

Hickmann became politically active from 1919. In that year he joined the DVP, for which he moved in 1922 as a member of the Saxon state parliament. Hickmann belonged to the state parliament until 1933, from 1926 to 1931 as its vice-president and then until 1933 as chairman of the DVP parliamentary group. From 1921 to 1924 he was also a member of the city council in Leipzig. On May 23, 1933, Hickmann voted in the Saxon state parliament for the adoption of the Saxon Enabling Act . After the dissolution of the state parliament by the National Socialists, Hickmann stopped his political activities.

After the Second World War , in 1945 Hickmann was one of the founders of the CDU in Saxony , which he then took over as chairman. From December 1945 he was a member of the leadership of the Christian Democrats in the Soviet occupation zone , including from 1947 to 1948 as acting chairman. From 1948 to 1950 Hickmann served as deputy chairman of the Eastern CDU . In 1946 he was elected to the Saxon state parliament, whose vice-president he remained until February 1950. From October 1949 he was also a member of the Provisional People's Chamber .

However , Hickmann made enemies through his critical stance towards the SED . A speech by Hickmann to the Saxon state executive on January 6, 1950 intensified the attacks against him. Here he questioned the leading role of the SED, defended the private economy and warned urgently against a separation of the GDR from West Germany. In addition, he demanded the complete independence of parties and expressed his satisfaction that at least the western German state under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer was a Christian state. As a result, on January 23, 1950, SED groups in Dresden stormed the state office of the CDU with slogans such as “Hang them up, the pig!” And demanded Hickmann's resignation. In view of the massive pressure, also within the CDU, Hickmann resigned from his party offices on January 30, 1950. In the summer of the same year, the party was expelled. From then on he was officially only chairman of the Saxon Main Bible Society, but was considered the most important liaison of the CDU in exile in Saxony until his death .

LKG Saxony

At the instigation of Hickmann, who became the first chairman of the board, the Landeskirchliche Kreditgenossenschaft für Sachsen eGmbH (LKG) was founded in the Ständehaus in Dresden on October 2, 1925, with the aim of church self-help in acute financial distress after World War II and inflation . Church funds should "only be made available again for purely ecclesiastical purposes". The LKG was the first Protestant credit institute in Germany. In keeping with the common benefit, the focus of business activity was not on making a high profit, but rather on granting favorable conditions for members.

With the DC circuit of the churches in the Nazi era and the LKG bodies were brought into line. LKG's banking operations continued to develop well up to 1937 despite political and church disputes. However, during the bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, the bank building was completely destroyed. It was only by chance that the most important documents were removed from the building beforehand so that operations could then be temporarily resumed.

Under the leadership of the GDR regime , operations were again severely impaired by the state planning requirements , although it did not close. By 1990 the employees even managed to collect donations of 2 million marks for church projects and Inner Mission .

With the political change in 1990 , the LKG office moved back to the city ​​center next to the Kreuzkirche . In 2010 the LKG merged with the KD-Bank to form the Bank for Church and Diakonie .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hugo Hickmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All information: Rudolf Weinmeister: The teaching staff of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium during the first 25 years of its existence (1902–1907) , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig 1927 , Edelmann, Leipzig 1927, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Landeskirchliche Kredit-Genossenschaft Sachsen, in: Bank für Kirche und Diakonie: 90 years Landeskirchliche Kredit-Genossenschaft Sachsen
  3. ↑ Thomas Drendel: Street names for a new residential area , in: Sächsische Zeitung , January 26, 2013.
  4. ^ See on the voting behavior of the bourgeois MPs on the Saxon Enabling Act: Mike Schmeitzner : Dresden: Landtag and State Chancellery . In: Konstantin Hermann (Ed.): Führerschule, Thingplatz, "Judenhaus" - places and buildings of the National Socialist dictatorship in Saxony . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-052-9 , pp. 58-61, here especially note 7 on p. 61.
  5. ^ Ralf Thomas Baus: The founding of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany in Saxony 1945. In: Historisch-Politische-Mitteilungen , 2 (1995), pp. 83–117.
  6. ^ Ralf Thomas Baus, The Christian Democratic Union of Germany in the Soviet Occupied Zone 1945 to 1948. Founding, program, politics (Düsseldorf: 2001).
  7. ↑ Michael Richter: Die Ost-CDU 1948–1952. Between resistance and synchronization. Düsseldorf, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Hickmann, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP, CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1955
Place of death Langebrück