Nikolaus Juergensen

Nikolaus Jürgensen (born January 26, 1906 in Borby , now Eckernförde , † March 17, 1971 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Nikolaus Jürgensen is the eldest son of the politician Jürgen Jürgensen . After attending school, Jürgensen worked for the local health insurance company from 1921 to 1933. In 1924, Jürgensen joined the SPD, and in January 1933 he was elected chairman of the SPD von Eckernförde. He was also chairman of the Association of Employees from 1930.

In April 1933, at the instigation of the new Nazi mayor Helmut Lemke , Jürgensen was taken into protective custody with like-minded people and held under degrading conditions in the Moltke barracks in Schleswig. After more than six weeks, Jürgensen was transferred to the prison in Rendsburg for a further six weeks.

Afterwards, Jürgensen was unemployed. He made a living by selling coffee from house to house. This enabled him to maintain close contacts with resistance groups.

In 1937 he met the threat of expulsion from Eckernförde by taking up a job at the Hamburg building materials dealer Backhaus. At that time, they also operated a gravel pit in Karlsminde. The activity as managing director of a company that supplied gravel and cement for the Jutland section of the Western Wall secured him exemption from military service from the beginning of the war.

Jürgensen tried to help Jewish citizens. His daughter Hilde reported that he even housed Jewish Hamburgers in the basement of her house until the end of the war.

MP

From 1946 to 1957, Jürgensen was a member of the Hamburg Parliament , which in 1947 sent him as a deputy to the Department of Economics and Transport.

From 1957 to 1969 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1965 to 1969 Deputy Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Nikolaus Jürgensen has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Hamburg VI constituency or, since 1965, of the Bergedorf constituency .

Children Hilde Peter, b. Jürgensen (1933 - 2013) Hans Jürgensen (* 1937)

literature

• Fritz Singer : Handbook of the German Bundestag (3rd electoral period).