Reinhold Heinen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reinhold Heinen (born January 7, 1894 in Düsseldorf , † July 23, 1969 in Heimbach ) was a German politician ( CDU ), journalist and publisher .

Life

Reinhold Heinen initially worked as a volunteer at the Dürener Zeitung , then at the center newspaper Warmia in Warmia in Heilsberg, East Prussia (today's Lidzbark Warmiński ). At the same time he studied political science at the Albertina in Königsberg . In 1916 he became a member of the Catholic Academic Association Tuisconia Königsberg (in Bonn) in the Cartell Association (CV) . From 1917 Heinen was editor-in-chief of the largest daily newspaper in Silesia , the Oberschlesischer Kurier . In 1919 he received his doctorate from the University of Breslau .

In 1919 he was involved in the Catholic People's Party to keep Upper Silesia and the Hultschiner Ländchen in the German Reich. He was general secretary of the local political association from 1921 to 1933 and editor of the local political papers . In his journalistic publications he represented national points of view. After the dissolution of the Prussian municipal parliaments by the National Socialists in mid-1933, Heinen had to stop his local political activities for the Center Party , as well as a teaching position at the University of Cologne . In the mid-1930s he worked for the Catholic News Office in Breda , the Netherlands , covered by an official activity at the Foreign Office of the Defense of the High Command of the Wehrmacht with Admiral Wilhelm Canaris . Due to his ongoing engagement against the National Socialists , he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and imprisoned for four years in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . On May 8, 1945 he was in Lütjenheide , a small village in Prignitz . After the end of the war, Heinen was a lifelong member of the International Sachsenhausen Committee .

After the end of the war, Heinen was a co-founder of the CDU in Düren and became district administrator in the Monschau district . In 1946 he received a license for the newspaper Kölnische Rundschau and became its publisher and editor.

literature

  • Rainer Moltmann: Reinhold Heinen (1894–1969). A Christian politician, journalist and publisher. Droste Verlag Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-1898-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Heinen (1894–1969). A Christian politician, journalist and publisher , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
  2. ↑ a b Reinhold Heinen , Archive for Social History
  3. ↑ Reinhold Heinen (TsK): Politician and Journalist ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Academia , 1/2006, page 58 f. (PDF)
  4. ↑ Peter Böthig, Peter Walther (ed.): The Russians are there: Everyday life in the war and a new beginning in 1945 in diaries from Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-079-5 , pp. 147 ( online [accessed April 16, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Heinen, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1969
Place of death Heimbach