Rudolf Eickhoff

Rudolf Eickhoff (born February 6, 1902 in Sulingen ; † September 6, 1983 there ) was a German politician ( DP , CDU ).

Life and work

Eickhoff was born the son of a master baker. After attending middle school, he completed an apprenticeship as a baker, which he completed with a journeyman's examination. He went to vocational school, passed the master craftsman's examination there in 1925 and then worked in his father's shop in Sulingen. In 1931 he took over the management of the business. Eickhoff was a member of the Stahlhelm and when it was dissolved was taken over into SA Reserve II. After this was also dissolved, he was taken over into the NSKK . Since 1939 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was last taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1945. Then Eickhoff worked again as a master baker. From 1945 to 1960 he was a master craftsman in the district of Grafschaft Diepholz , became a board member of the Lower Saxony bakers' guild and was a member of the general assembly of the Hanover Chamber of Crafts until 1974. Eickhoff's daughter Ursula, who learned the confectionery trade, became a German girls' champion in table tennis in 1950.

Political party

Eickhoff joined the German Party (DP) in 1945 , which at that time was still called Lower Saxony State Party (NLP), and was elected deputy chairman of the DP district association Grafschaft Diepholz. On November 3, 1960, he switched to the CDU.

MP

After 1945 he was a member of the district council of the Grafschaft Diepholz district and chairman of the DP parliamentary group there. From 1946 to 1972 he was always a member of the district committee.

Eickhoff belonged to the German Bundestag from the first Bundestag election from 1949 to 1957 as a directly elected member of the Diepholz-Melle-Wittlage constituency . From 1953 to 1957 he was deputy chairman of the DP parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for special issues affecting medium-sized businesses.

From 1959 to 1963 he was an elected member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the DP in its fourth electoral term. On September 19, 1960, he left the DP parliamentary group and was considered a guest of the CDU parliamentary group on September 27, 1960, which he finally joined on November 3, 1960.

Public offices

From 1948 to 1964 he was mayor of the city of Sulingen. In addition, he was on the city council until 1972. As early as 1936 he was appointed to the supervisory board by the representatives' meeting of Volksbank Sulingen and from 1945 to 1972 he was chairman of the supervisory board.

Honors

• 1967 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Local Political Association of the German Union Parties

literature

• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 56 ( online as PDF) .
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 84.
• City of Sulingen: Sulingen history and people , 2012, page 195/6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table tennis , June 2019, page 45.