Reinhold Rehs
Reinhold Rehs | |
|---|---|
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| Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | |
| In office 1950–1953 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 1953–1969 | |
| Constituency | Rendsburg-Neumünster |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 October 1901 Klinthenen, CDU |
Reinhold Rehs (12 October 1901 – 4 December 1971) was a German politician and chairman of the Federation of Expellees in 1967-70.
Rehs was born in Klinthenen (now Znamenka in
Heidelberg. He worked as a journalist for the "Ostpreußische Zeitung" in Königsberg (1923–24) and became a lawyer there in 1928.[1] He joined the SA in 1933 and the Nazi Party
in 1937.
In
Danzig in 1944. Rehs was badly wounded in February 1945 and was evacuated to Western Germany. In August 1945 Rehs started to work as a jurist at the Schleswig-Holstein State employment office and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1948.[1]
Rehs was elected a Member of the
Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen in 1966 and President of the Federation of Expellees in 1967. When Willy Brandt first announced his intended turnaround concerning the Former eastern territories of Germany at the SPD party congress in March 1968, Rehs, sitting in the first row, left the audience in protest.[4]
After Brandt became Chancellor Rehs seceded from the SPD in 1969 and joined the CDU in protest against the change in the German Ostpolitik leading to the Treaty of Warsaw[3][5]
Rehs died in 1971.
References
- ^ a b Biography at munzinger.de (in German)
- ^ Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
- ^ a b Spiegel.de "Klinke geputzt" 19 May 1969(in German)
- ^ Die Zeit 12 April 1968 "Die schwere Bürde des Reinhold Rehs" (in German)
- ^ FAZ.de 22 October 2007 "Vertriebene, Tor der Erinnerung" (in German)