Kurt Herzog (politician, 1910)

Kurt Herzog (born January 26, 1910 in Breslau , † after 1951) was a German politician ( CDU and NDPD ). From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Mecklenburg State Parliament .

Life

Kurt Herzog attended elementary school until 1919 and middle school in Breslau until 1926 . After a semester at the commercial college, he completed an administrative course in the Wroclaw sales office of Nestlé AG until 1929 and worked as a travel agent, traveling salesman and factorist for various companies until 1939. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944 and settled in Schwerin after his release in August 1945 .

Herzog joined the CDU in December , got a job in the Mecklenburg tracing service for missing relatives and in February 1946 switched to the state administration. Here he initially worked as an assistant officer, then as a district officer and finally head of section in the information department of the Prime Minister's Office, which dealt with propaganda, complaints and the fight against corruption. Because of his political ties, he made a steep career in the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1947 under CDU Minister Friedrich Burmeister : In 1948, Herzog headed the "People and Homeland" department, and in 1949 he was the minister's personal advisor. In the state election in 1946 he was elected to the state parliament. Herzog took part in the German People's Congress on behalf of the state government and thereby undermined the position of the CDU party leader Jakob Kaiser , who, together with the CDU board, had spoken out against the CDU's participation. After the party purge in February 1950, Herzog joined the NDPD, causing the CDU to lose a mandate in the state parliament. The Union supporters particularly resented him for publicly agitating against his former party. Dissatisfied with his position as head of the investment planning department, he resigned from the Ministry of Economics and Labor on December 31, 1951.

swell

• LHAS 6.11-11, No. 6823 and No. 5442, Ministry of the Interior, Main Personnel and Training Department, Kurt Herzog personnel file.

literature

• Klaus Schwabe: State elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1946. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament from August 28 to October 20, 1996, Schwerin 1996.
• Christian Schwießelmann: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the foundation to the dissolution of the regional association. A representation of party history . Droste, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-7700-1909-0 ( research and sources on contemporary history , vol. 58)