Rudolf-Ernst Heiland

Rudolf-Ernst Heiland (born September 8, 1910 in Hohndorf ; † May 6, 1965 in Marl ) was a German politician ( SPD , SAPD , LO ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and 1948-1949 member of the Parliamentary Council .

Life and work

Heiland came to Marl with his parents in 1912, where his father had found work. From 1925 on he worked as an auxiliary fitter at the local electricity company until he was dismissed for political reasons in 1933. In 1936 the National Socialists arrested him together with Walter Wenthe for alleged high treason and sentenced him to two and a half years in prison . After his release from prison in 1939, Heiland initially worked as an employee in East Germany, then was conscripted as an unskilled worker during World War II, most recently in Danzig . At the end of the war, he returned to Marl and started his own business as a businessman. As mayor, he was a member of the supervisory board of the municipal "Neue Marler Baugesellschaft" and since 1953 also a member of the supervisory board of the Auguste Victoria colliery .

Political party

Heiland had been a member of the SAJ since 1924 and the SPD in 1928. In 1931 he joined the newly founded SAPD, switched to the Trotskyist LO in 1932 and was active in the resistance against National Socialism in the IKD that emerged from this . After the Second World War he rejoined the SPD, became its local chairman in Marl and was also a member of the board of the party district of Western Westphalia.

MP

Heiland belonged to the council of the city of Marl since 1945 and the district council of the Recklinghausen district since 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Heiland was a member of the Parliamentary Council in 1948/49 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 until his death in 1965. He was excluded by Bundestag President Erich Köhler on March 22, 1950 for unparliamentary behavior for eight days of meetings after he, together with Herbert Wehner and several other SPD MPs, had expelled the right-wing extremist and previously also excluded MP Wolfgang Hedler from the relaxation room for MPs, with Hedler had fallen down a flight of stairs. Heiland always entered parliament via the North Rhine-Westphalian state list of his party.

In 1962, Heiland, who was also Mayor of Marl at the time, brought a letter from the NRW Minister of Education, Werner Schütz, to the Marl CDU. Savior opened the letter and copied the contents. The breach of the confidentiality of letters became known. In his defense, he said succinctly: "Let that be my concern."

Public offices

Heiland was mayor of the city of Marl from 1946 until his death. In this role he shaped the city during the economic miracle and the merging of the districts. The bubbling income from trade tax, especially from the Hüls chemical works, allowed ambitious and complex urban planning. He created the new city center with the town hall (architects van den Broek and Bakema, construction period 1960-67), dared new concepts in residential construction (hill houses) and commissioned the architect Hans Scharoun , who had achieved world renown with the Berlin Philharmonic, to build one Primary school on Westfalenstrasse with an innovative concept (1964–70), today renovated as Scharounschule Marl in accordance with the requirements of listed buildings .

In 1954 he became Vice President of the German Municipal Assembly , having previously been a member of the board of the Westphalian Municipal Assembly.

Web links

Rudolf-Ernst Heiland at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Berens: Trotskyists against Hitler . Cologne 2007, p. 199 & p. 10
2. ↑ Norbert Frei: Politics of the Past. The beginnings of the Federal Republic and the Nazi past 2nd edition, Munich 1997, p. 318.
3. ↑ Der Spiegel of January 17, 1962.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Wilhelm Willeke	Mayor of Marl 1946 - 1965	Ernst Immel