Walter Nienhagen

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Walter Nienhagen (born February 6, 1927 in Leipzig , † December 16, 2007 in Siegen ) was a German local politician and honorary district administrator ( SPD ).

Life and work

Nienhagen was picked up by the Gestapo as a youth in 1938 for distributing leaflets. In 1943 he was an air force helper , in 1944 he was in a military training camp and in the Reich Labor Service . After a short military service he was taken prisoner of war in Yugoslavia until 1947. After his release, Nienhagen attended the Leipzig Nikolaischule and passed his Abitur in February 1948. He began studying history at the University of Leipzig.

At the Leipzig University he belonged to the inner circle around Wolfgang Natonek , the last democratically elected chairman of the university's student council. Like him, Nienhagen was a member of the LDP university group and was deputy city group leader of the LDP in Leipzig- Stötteritz .

He was one of the founding members of an anti-communist action committee, which also included Helmut Stelling , Rudolf Georgi and Manfred Gerlach . After the work of this group was betrayed by informers, he was arrested on November 11, 1948 by the Soviet secret service of the NKVD / NWD and was in custody in the NKVD prisons in Dresden on Münchner Platz and on Bautzner Strasse until 1950. On January 7, 1950, a Soviet military court sentenced Walter Nienhagen to 25 years in a labor camp. The conviction was in contravention of the constitution of the GDR under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for espionage and anti-Soviet propaganda. A little later Nienhagen was brought to Bautzen in the so-called yellow misery . On November 26, 1956, he was released to the Federal Republic of Germany.

The suspicion that Manfred Gerlach, who would later be the last head of the GDR's state council , was involved in the betrayal of the group could not be negotiated because of his inability to negotiate. The Dresden Higher Regional Court had admitted the indictment against Gerlach in February 2000, as he seemed sufficiently suspicious to have at least approved by denouncing the victims, arresting them and sentencing them to unlawful imprisonment. On January 21, 1990, Walter Nienhagen was rehabilitated by the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation.

He had already become a member of the SPD on May 3, 1956. A fellow prisoner who was released a few months before Nienhagen had smuggled his membership application out of prison.

From 1957 to 1961 he studied social science at the University of Social Sciences in Wilhelmshaven. He completed his studies with a degree in social economics. He then worked at Stahlwerke Südwestfalen AG, later Krupp-Stahlwerke, in Geisweid near Siegen, head of the personnel department and later social director. Nienhagen was represented in numerous bodies of the SPD. From 1973 to 1996 he was chairman of the SPD sub-district Siegen-Wittgenstein. He was married and had two children.

From 1964 Nienhagen belonged to the Geisweid municipal council , from 1966 to the city ​​council of the city of Hüttental and from 1975 to the city council in Siegen in the course of the new municipal structures . Member of the district council of the Siegen district , from 1975 of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , Nienhagen was from 1969 to 1999. From 1984 to 1999 Nienhagen was the last honorary district administrator in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. Nienhagen represented the district and was active in numerous committees of the district council of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Nienhagen had been involved in the Evangelical Church for decades since the 1960s, and for many years there was a synodal in the Ev. Church district Siegen, synodal in the regional synod of Ev. Church of Westphalia, long-time chairman of the social committee of the Westphalian regional church, and also a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD).

Honors

On April 24, 1981 Nienhagen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and on January 23, 1989 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. On July 2, 2001, Nienhagen received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Works

  • Freedom, which I mean: a life in the 20th century. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-86634-527-0

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: ex-GDR State Councilor Gerlach does not have to go to court )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.soldan.de
  2. ↑ As a Liberal im Gelben Elend in prison , biographical article on the website of the Federal Resistance and Persecution Bavaria e. V .; accessed: November 1, 2012
  3. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: 80 years of Walter Nienhagen )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / afa-altenkirchen.sozi.info
  4. ↑ Ministerialblatt NRW Edition 2001 No. 48 of August 6, 2001 ; accessed: November 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Nienhagen, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2007
Place of death Wins