Johann Karl Heide

Johann Karl Heide (born June 20, 1897 in Itzehoe ; † May 3, 1974 in Arnsberg ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life

Heide came from a family with 11 children and was non-denominational. Heide got involved in the local workers gymnastics and sports club early on. This suggests that his parents' house was already oriented towards social democracy. After attending primary school , Heide completed an apprenticeship as a wallpaper printer from 1912 to 1914. During the First World War he had been a volunteer soldier since 1914. The experiences during the war made him a staunch pacifist . After the war, he moved to the Soest district in the 1920s , worked in industry and became a member of the German metalworkers' union (DMV). He later worked as an office worker and party official. He worked for the party newspaper Volksstimme and for the “ Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold ”. In this organization, Heide was later also district leader and Gau board member until 1933. From 1924 he was also involved in the German Peace Society . In 1933, he had to emigrate to France , his mother's country of origin, for political reasons .

On this occasion, the National Socialist party newspaper Rote Erde, responsible for Westphalia, published a short note: “Why didn't the police intervene early enough? The pacifist and class fighter Jonny Heide, well-known in the whole of Westphalia-South, sought his salvation in flight. It is characteristic of him that he has moved his field of activity to France of all places. It is sad that this bad guy managed to escape shortly before the upcoming reckoning, despite the fact that the police were often made aware of the civil war instigator. This could not be indifferent to various SA men who were beaten bloody at Jonny's instigation. "

In 1939 he was officially expatriated. After the German invasion, Heide managed to escape to unoccupied France and was subsequently not extradited to the German authorities. After the end of the Second World War he returned to Germany. In 1945, Heide helped set up the Westfälische Rundschau .

Heide died in 1974 after a traffic accident. According to Vera Gemmecke (see section Literature), the enforcement of “justice” was a main concern for him and he always tried “not to approach anyone”.

Political party

Heide joined the SPD in 1919, for which he ran unsuccessfully for the Prussian state parliament in 1932. From 1945 he was a full-time party secretary of the SPD. First he heads the district office of the SPD in Warstein before he became a member of the state parliament and finally a member of the Bundestag. In this context he moved to Arnsberg and was there for decades (1948-1970) the chairman of the local association of his party. At times, Heide was also chairman of the SPD in the Arnsberg district.

MP

Before 1933 Heide was an official representative in the Werl office . In 1946/47 he was a member of the advisory provincial assembly for Westphalia (appointed by the allied military authorities) and the also still appointed state parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia . After moving to Arnsberg, he became a member of the district council of the Arnsberg district and the city council of Arnsberg.

In 1947 he ran in vain for the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1950 to 1953 he was a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia .

As early as 1949, Heide ran (in vain) for the Bundestag. In a by-election in 1950, he renounced a new candidacy in favor of the later Social Democratic Prime Minister Fritz Steinhoff .

For the Bundestag constituency Arnsberg - Soest , he moved into the Bundestag via the state list in 1953 and was a member until 1965.

From 1953 to 1965 he was a full member of the committee for expellees, deputy member of the committee for electoral testing and immunity, from 1957 to 1961 a deputy member of the committee for labor, from 1957 to 1965 he was a full member of the committee for burden sharing.

literature

• Vera Gemmecke: parties in the election campaign. Meisenheim, 1967.
• Jens Hahnwald: Jonny Heide . In: Sauerlanders lift the social democracy from the baptism. The history of the SPD in the Hochsauerlandkreis and in its cities and communities. Arnsberg, 2013 p. 223f.

Web links

• Johann Karl Heide at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rote Erde from July 1, 1933 quoted. after: 70 years of the local SPD association in Arnsberg 1918–1988. Arnsberg, 1989. p. 60