Heinrich Schmidt (politician)

Heinrich Schmidt ( born December 13, 1902 in Taught, † December 20, 1960 in Brede Beck) was a German politician (NSDAP ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school in Taught Schmidt completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship in Taught. In parallel, he spent three years at the urban business school in Taught. He then worked until 1927 as a clerk.

In 1923 Schmidt on the German Nationalist Party ( DVP ). In 1924 he joined the National Socialist Freedom Party, a placeholder for the banned party at this time NSDAP, a. After the founding of the NSDAP in the spring of 1925, Schmidt joined this again. By the year 1927, he also belonged to the SA, the paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party, at. In the years 1927 to 1932 Schmidt took over duties as district leader of the NSDAP. Subsequently he served until 1933 as Regional Inspector. Since 1930, Schmidt also appeared publicly as a kingdom speaker.

From 1929 to 1931 Schmidt was the first time a public office as a city councilman in Hameln. Also since 1929, he served as a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament. In the Nazi press Schmidt was active from 1927 to 1931 as an employee of the Lower Saxony observer and since 1932 as an employee of the journal community of workers.

In the years 1932 to 1933 Schmidt sat as a Member of the Nazi Party for the constituency of South Hanover in the Prussian Landtag. In the National Socialist parliamentary group, he took over the task of the person responsible for staff matters. After the dissolution of the Prussian Landtag in the fall of 1933, Schmidt sat from November 1933 as MP for the constituency 16 ( Südhannover - Braunschweig) in Nazi Reichstag.

After the Nazi seizure of power in the spring of 1933, Schmidt was also a member of the Hanover Provincial Committee and other Board members in the province. From 12 March to 24 August 1933, he officiated also as citizens chief spokesman in Hildesheim. From April 1 to August 24, 1933 Schmidt also served as state commissioner at the city council in Hildesheim. On August 24, 1933 Schmidt eventually took over the role of interim mayor of Hildesheim. In the fall of 1935, he disappeared after a libel case against him should be opened. He put his Reichstag mandate on January 28, 1936, for him moved by Andreas Dornieden. After the war he returned to Hildesheim and was sentenced at the local District Court to six years in prison.