Kurt Heinig

Kurt Heinig

Kurt Heinig (born January 19, 1886 in Leipzig , † May 21, 1956 in Stockholm ) was a German politician ( SPD ), writer and journalist .

Life

As a result of the November Revolution, Heinig, actually a lithographer's assistant , was given a position in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, where he had to negotiate with the Hohenzollern family , represented by the Ministry of House , about the separation of property from the state. The settlement that came about in 1921 was incorporated into the law on compensation for the prince in 1926 .

In the mid-1920s he toured the United States and wrote about his experiences in the forward and world stage . He was of the opinion that Germany could modernize itself through technical progress and the creation of a larger internal market. He added, however, that Germany could not orientate itself entirely to America because the countries had different backgrounds.

Kurt Heinig was a member of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Reichstag for the constituency of Potsdam II from 1927 to 1933 and was regarded as the party's financial expert. As a member of the budget committee, he was involved in clearing up the aid scandal .

After Hitler came to power , Heinig evaded the imminent arrest on June 16, 1933 by fleeing to Denmark . During the Second World War he was a member of the SoPaDe and after the German invasion in 1940 he escaped to Sweden , where he worked as an employee of various Swedish newspapers. Heinig was expatriated in 1941 . In 1945 he founded the "German Association of 1945" in Stockholm, an organization that tried to improve German-Swedish relations, and at the same time took over its chairmanship. In 1955 he received an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University .

Kurt Heinig died in Stockholm on May 21, 1956.

Works

• Hohenzollern. Wilhelm II and his house. The fight for the crown possession. Publishing house for social science, Berlin 1921
• The financial scandals of the empire. Publishing house for social science, Berlin 1925.
• Prince compensation? A reader on the referendum. New processing. Publishing company of the General German Trade Union Confederation, Berlin 1926.
• Everyday economics . Union-Verlag, Hamburg, 1948.
• The Swedish middle ground. Social Security. Hammonia, Hamburg 1949.
• The budget. Vol. 1. Budget control. Mohr, Tuebingen, 1949.
• The budget. Vol. 2. The budget system. Mohr, Tübingen, 1951.
• The budget. Vol. 3. Index of contents, subject and name. Mohr, Tübingen, 1951.
• Introduction to the history of economics. Dietz, Hanover 1954.
• When the soldiers ... what wars cost. Nest-Verlag, Frankfurt 1957.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 . , P. 488 [1991]
• Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , pp. 410-413 (short biography).

Web links

• Kurt Heinig in the database of members of the Reichstag