Peter Harig

Peter Harig (born May 4, 1893 in Hermeskeil ; † June 19, 1981 there ) was a German politician ( center , CDP / CDU ).

Life

Harig attended elementary school and did military service in the First World War . He then worked as a self-employed farmer .

politics

Harig, who was a Catholic denomination, belonged to the center during the Weimar Republic . From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Trier-Land district council and from 1930 to 1933 local mayor in Hermeskeil. With the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was first imprisoned and then could not continue his political work.

After the Second World War he joined the CDP , from which the Rhineland-Palatinate state association of the CDU later emerged. From 1945–1947 he was again the mayor of Hermeskeil and from 1949 to 1958 he was the mayor of Hermeskeil. 1958–1964 he was a member of the district council and the district committee Trier-Land.

In terms of state politics, he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly in 1946/47 . After that he was a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate in the first electoral term .

From 1920 to 1924 he was chairman of the Hunsrück regional group of the free peasantry and from 1924 to 1933 chairman of the Trier-Land district of the Trier farmers' association. He was an honorary judge at the administrative court in Trier .

In 1977 he received the constitutional medal of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 261.