Erhard Hübener
Erhard Hübener (* August 4, 1881 in eating, † June 3, 1958 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German politician (DDP, the Liberal Democratic Party ). From December 1946 to October 1949 he was the first Prime Minister of Saxony- Anhalt and only non-Communist head of government in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
Life
Hübener was born the son of a Protestant pastor. From 1894, he attended high school in Seehausen in the Altmark, later the country Pforta. In 1901, he made there a high school. He then studied history and economics and a doctorate.
During the First World War he was an officer. After the war he joined the German Democratic Party ( DDP) at. In 1919 he was at the instigation of Minister Otto Fischbeck employees in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. In 1922, he joined as Deputy Governor in the Prussian province of Saxony.
In 1924 he was elected Governor. He distinguished himself as a business and management expert who examined the consensus across party boundaries. He dealt with a federal reorganization of Germany and already proposed in the 1920s, the establishment of a federal state of Saxony -Anhalt ago. In 1930, he was confirmed by a vote of Social Democrats and German National in office.
1933 Hübener was removed from office. By the end of the " Third Reich", he devoted himself to artistic and scientific issues, wrote small lettering under the pseudonym JS Erhard.
1945, the Americans appointed him again in the office of the Provincial Governor. The Soviet Military Administration (SMAD ) appointed him as soon as President of the Provincial Council of the Province of Saxony. Hübener was co-founder of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( Liberal Democratic Party ) in Halle an der Saale. On December 3, 1946, a majority of the Liberal Democratic Party and CDU elected him in the state parliament of Saxony -Anhalt to the only non-communist prime minister in the Soviet occupation zone. For the Soviet occupation he was an uncomfortable head of government. He opposed the land reform, the regulation he had signed himself on 3 September 1945 and a schematic denazification.
On June 5, 1947, it came under his significant involvement with the first and last all-German Prime Ministers' Conference in Munich, which dealt with the impending division of Germany. Hübener had threatened to resign if the SMAD East German Prime Minister would not let go. Contrary to his expectations, it rejected the West German prime minister, including his longtime liberal party colleague Reinhold Maier, in hours of discussion from, to take measures for the preservation of German unity.
Hübener saw from then on hopeless items. At the Third German People's Congress in May 1949, which approved the constitution of the GDR on the instructions of the SMAD, he appealed as the keynote speaker of the Liberal Democratic Party to the delegates: "Our future government should, will and must learn to stand on free soil with free people. " on October 1, 1949, just days before the founding of the GDR, he resigned as prime minister of Saxony- Anhalt.
While many political friends fled to West Germany, Hübener remained in the GDR. However, he withdrew completely from politics, used artistic and historical studies, wrote his autobiography, which was later published in the Federal Republic. Staying at a spa in Bad Salzuflen Hübener died on 3 June 1958. He was buried in Wernigerode, where he had lived in recent years.
Hübener was married to Otti Bornemann since 1909.
According to him, the FDP-affiliated Erhard Hübener Foundation is named. The state capital Magdeburg named in his honor at the initiative of the FDP Council Group in 2006, a place next to the Hundertwasser House as Erhard Hübener Square.
Writings
- Erhard Hübener: circles of life. Apprenticeship and journeyman years of a Prime Minister. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1984 (Central German research. Band 90), ISBN 3-412-05483-6.
- Erhard Hübener: Liberal as a social responsibility. In: LDP information. 3 (1949)