Walther Hasemann

The title of this article is ambiguous. For a German geologist with a similar name, see Walter Hasemann (1890–1961).

Walther Hasemann (born October 18, 1900 in Leer ; † November 20, 1976 in Hanover ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( FDP , later DP ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Hasemann began studying chemistry, which he completed with an engineering degree and a doctorate. Later he worked as a manufacturer. He was a co-founder of the German European Union in 1946 and was elected vice-president in 1950. He was also Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 1951 .

He is not to be confused with the geologist Walter Hasemann .

Political party

From 1932 to 1945 Hasemann was a member of the NSDAP . In 1945 he was one of the founders of the FDP . On January 8, 1946, he was elected to the founding board of the FDP in the British occupation zone, but had to resign from the body in February 1946 by order of the British military government . He was elected state chairman of the FDP Hanover in 1946 and was then state chairman of the Liberals in Lower Saxony until 1949 . Hasemann was then district chairman of the FDP in Hanover. His attempt to expel the supporters of a national collection around the state chairman Artur Stegner and the Bundestag member Herwart Miessner from the Lower Saxony FDP in May 1953 failed. Stegner then removed Hasemann from his position as district chairman. Hasemann then stated with resignation: "The FDP is infiltrated by anti-liberal elements in Lower Saxony."

In the mid-1950s, Hasemann joined the German party , for which he ran unsuccessfully on the Lower Saxony state list in the 1957 federal election.

MP

Hasemann was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1953. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of the FDP Lower Saxony. In the Bundestag he was chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry to review the contracts awarded in the Bonn area . In the run-up to the Bundestag election in 1953, he was subject to Herwart Miessner , who had converted from the right-wing extremist German Reich Party to the FDP, in the candidate list in the Hanover constituency and was subsequently not put on the state list.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 309-310.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Spiegel, issue 29/1947.
2. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 176.
3. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, page 646.
4. ↑ Quoted from: Hamburger Morgenpost of August 5, 1953.
5. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, page 646.