Reinhold Rehs

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Reinhold Rehs

Reinhold Rehs (born October 12, 1901 in Klinthenen , Gerdauen district , † December 4, 1971 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD , CDU ).

Life

Rehs was born as the fourth child of Gertrud Rehs. Kantel (* March 18, 1873; † July 30, 1962) and the "father of bees" Carl Rehs were born in East Prussia. He had six sisters.

After graduating from the Collegium Fridericianum , he began to study law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1920 he became a member of the Gothia fraternity , which moved to Göttingen after the Second World War. As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He worked as an editor and from 1925 to 1928 as an assistant judge in Allenstein . In 1928 he settled in Königsberg as a lawyer . Between 1931 and 1933 he was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . In 1939 he was drafted into the air raid warning service of the Luftwaffe . In 1944 he became head of the Danzig air raid warning command. Wounded near Danzig in 1945, he came to Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War . As early as August 1945 he became legal advisor at the state employment office in Kiel. He was married to Clara-Asta geb. Schultz-Gora († December 5, 1980 in Stuttgart) and Karin Rehs .

politics

On May 1, 1937, Rehs joined the NSDAP. On January 25, 1944, his “political stance [was] irreproachable” was certified. After the Second World War he was initially a member of the SPD, but joined the CDU on May 13, 1969 because of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik .

Rehs represented the constituency of Kiel-Süd in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament from 1950 to December 28, 1953 .

From the Bundestag election 1953 to 1969 he sat as a member of the German Bundestag . From 1962 until his parliamentary group change to the CDU, he was chairman of the working group of expellees in the SPD parliamentary group. From December 11, 1955 to July 3, 1957, he was deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Otto John case . From 1957 to 1961 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for expellees, then until June 3, 1969 its chairman.

IDP work

Rehs was a co-founder of the "East Prussian Aid Community", which later became the Kiel district group of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft, which he chaired for ten years. In 1960 he became a board member of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft , and in 1962 he was vice-president of the Association of Expellees . In 1966 he was elected spokesman (federal chairman) of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft, from 1967 to 1970 he was also the successor of Wenzel Jaksch President of the Association of Expellees. Rehs was also chairman of the city ​​community of Königsberg and president of the Northeast German Cultural Association .

Honors

Federal President Heinrich Lübke awarded Rehs the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his various services, in particular for the social concerns of the displaced. Rehs was also the bearer of high honors from the associations of expellees, including the Königsberg Citizens Medal and the Prussian Shield of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft . In 1970 he was awarded the plaque of honor of the Association of Expellees .

Fonts

  • How did the student live in Königsberg? The Ostpreußenblatt, vol. 16, episode 24, June 12, 1965.
  • The spiritual basis and political task of the East Prussians. Landsmannschaft East Prussia, Hamburg 1966.
  • Confidence and Assertion. Eight speeches on the political position of the German expellees. Krüger & Nienstedt, Hamburg 1967.
  • With Friedrich Klein , Heinz Kloss , Boris Meissner , Fritz Münch , Theodor Veiter : System of an international ethnic group law. Treatises on international law. Braunmüller, Stuttgart.
    • Volume 1: Basics and terms. 1970.
    • Volume 2: Domestic regional universal structure of an ethnic group law. 1972.
    • Volume 3: Special problems of the protection of ethnic groups and linguistic minorities. 1978.
  • Between yesterday and tomorrow.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 25-27.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 673.
  • Christina Schubert: The members of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament after 1945 . In: In: Sönke Zankel (Ed.): Scandals in Schleswig-Holstein. Contributions to the history competition of the Federal President. Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 2012 ISBN 978-388312-4193 , pp. 94-96.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 389.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 25.
  3. ↑ Federal Archives Berlin BDC R 3001 71744 / Rehs, Reinhold.
personal data
SURNAME Rehs, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag; President of the Federation of Expellees
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Klinthenen , Gerdauen district
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1971
Place of death Kiel