Martin Heix

Martin Heix 'candidate poster for the 1949 federal election

Martin Heix (* 2 September 1903 in Büderich ; † 24. April 1977 in Oberhausen ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Life

Heix was born in the Moers district. After attending elementary school, he learned the mason trade. In 1919 he joined the Christian construction workers' association and was active in the local group in Büderich. After completing his training, he was elected to the works council of his employer in 1922. 1924 was one of the co-founders of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in his hometown. He became active in the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB) and had been a full-time secretary for the Catholic youth workers from 1927. In 1930 he became the workers' secretary of the KAB for the Oberhausen-Mülheim-Kettwig district in Oberhausen.

After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”, Heix remained active with the KAB in Oberhausen, albeit with limited scope for action and under continuous surveillance by the Gestapo . On June 18, 1937, following an arrest warrant from the Oberhausen District Court, he was temporarily taken into protective custody on suspicion of “preparing for high treason and violating the treachery law”. The proceedings before the special court in Hamm were closed on July 31, 1937, after which he was held in protective custody until September 24, 1937. He married in 1938 and was employed as a Wehrmacht soldier two years later until the end of the Second World War . In 1945 he was taken prisoner in Belgium and after his release he settled in Oberhausen again from 1946. In 1950 he founded the Catholic-oriented Kolping-Ketteler settlement community . After this had merged in the Heimbau-Wohnungsgenossenschaft Oberhausen in 1952 , he became its supervisory board chairman. In the same year he became regional chairman of the working group of Christian professional and professional organizations in the Rhineland .

Political party

Heix was a member of the Center Party since 1918 . After the Second World War, he helped found the CDU in Oberhausen, of which he was chairman from 1946 to 1962. He was also a member of the Christian Democratic Workers Association (CDA).

MP

For a short time in 1933 and from 1946 to 1976 Heix was a city councilor in Oberhausen, 1946 to 1948 and 1950 to 1956 as CDU parliamentary group leader in the Oberhausen City Council.

In 1946/47, Heix belonged to the appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , which drafted the state constitution. From 1949 to 1965 he was a member of the German Bundestag . In the elections of 1949 , 1957 and 1961 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Oberhausen . In the second federal election in 1953 , as part of an electoral agreement between the CDU and the center, he ran for second place on the Center Party's state list of North Rhine-Westphalia as compensation for the fact that the CDU left the Oberhausen constituency to its federal chairman Johannes Brockmann . From 1956 he was also a member of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag . In the 1965 federal elections , he lost the direct mandate to Oberhausen's mayor Luise Albertz (SPD) and, as he was not on the state list, left the Bundestag.

Public offices

From 1948 to 1952 Heix was mayor of Oberhausen.

Honors

1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
In the Oberhausen district of Styrum, Martin-Heix-Platz is named after him.

literature

Hanswerner Sandgathe: youth leader, " public enemy", papal knight of the order. The KAB secretary Martin Heix. In: Styrum. Counts, subjects, citizens , Oberhausen 2001, pp. 338 to 349.

Vera Bücker: Martin Heix and Nikolaus Groß. In: Cross under the swastika. Oberhausen Catholics in everyday Nazi life , ed. from the Catholic City Secretariat Oberhausen, Oberhausen 2003, pp. 128 to 149.

Vera Bücker: Martin Heix. In: Shift Change, the journal for the history of Oberhausen, May / Oct 2008; P. 32/33; by Geschichtswerkstatt Oberhausen eV (Ed.)

Web links

Individual proof

↑ Facsimile of the protective custody order, in: Church in Oberhausen , Vol. 3: Church and Nazi era in Oberhausen. Kath. Stadthaus, Oberhausen 1986, p. 56.

personal data
SURNAME	Heix, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buderich
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1977
Place of death	Oberhausen

[1] Facsimile of the protective custody order, in: Church in Oberhausen , Vol. 3: Church and Nazi era in Oberhausen. Kath. Stadthaus, Oberhausen 1986, p. 56.