Leonhard Heisswolf

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Leonhard Heisswolf (born October 6, 1880 in Brettheim ; † October 11, 1957 ) was a Hessian politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

Leonhard Heisswolf did an apprenticeship as a baker after elementary school and had been a baker in the consumer cooperative in Frankfurt am Main since 1904, and later a master baker there. 1945 to 1952 he was managing director of the consumer association in Frankfurt am Main.

politics

Leonhard Heisswolf was organized in a union from 1900 and from 1905 to 1933 a member and functionary of the SPD. In 1912 he was first elected as city councilor in Frankfurt am Main . There he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1921 to 1924 and head of the city council from 1924 to 1933.

Heisswolf was a co-signer of a newsletter published on September 13, 1930 in the “Frankfurter Nachrichten”, which spoke out against anti-Semitism. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he could not continue his political work.

In a report from 1937, the Frankfurt Gestapo classified hot wolf as a “particularly politically prominent person”. During the National Socialist era, he was arrested three times, for example on August 28, 1944 as part of the "Grid Action". There were also several house searches in his property. From 1945 he was active again in the SPD. From February 26, 1946 to July 14, 1946, he was a member of the appointed Land Advisory Committee , and from July 15, 1946 to November 30, 1946, he was a member of the State Constitutional Assembly of Greater Hesse .

In the first (from December 1, 1946 to November 30, 1950) and in the second (from August 26, 1953, as a replacement for the late Max Bock , until November 30, 1954), Leonhard Heisswolf was a member of the Hessian state parliament and there from December 1, 1946 to November 30, 1950, deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

In 1949 he was a member of the first and in 1954 the second Federal Assembly .

Honors

literature

  • Michael Bermejo: History of the Frankfurt City Council. The victims of the dictatorship: Frankfurt city councilors and members of the magistrate as persecuted by the Nazi state . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3782905628 , p. 155.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 278 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main: September 13, 1930. In: Frankfurter Geschichte. City Chronicle. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ Bermejo, M. (2006): History of the Frankfurt City Council. The victims of the dictatorship: Frankfurt city councilors and members of the magistrate as persecuted by the Nazi state. Frankfurt am Main, p. 155.
personal data
SURNAME Hot wolf, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Brettheim
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1957