Wolfgang Heine

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Wolfgang Heine
Wolfgang Heine
Member of the Reichstag
In office
1898–1920
ConstituencyBerlin 3 (1898-1912)
Anhalt I (1912-1920)
Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt
In office
14 November 1918 – July 1919
Prussian Minister of Justice
In office
27 November 1918 – 25 March 1919
Prussian Minister of the Interior
In office
25 March 1919 – March 1920
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1920
Member of the Constitutional Court
In office
1923–1925
Personal details
Born(1861-05-03)3 May 1861
Posen, Province of Posen, Prussia (Poznań, Poland)
Died9 May 1944(1944-05-09) (aged 83)
Ascona, Switzerland
NationalityGerman
Spouse(s)Cornelia Zeller
Emilie Vogel
OccupationJurist, lawyer

Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German

Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt
and Prussian Minister of the Interior and Justice.

Biography

Heine was born in

Berlin. He worked as a lawyer in Berlin and joined the SPD in 1884.[1]

He was elected a member of the

Prussian Minister of the Interior and Prussian Minister of Justice.[3]

Heine was criticized for his attempt to negotiate during the Kapp Putsch of March 1920 and lost his position in the Prussian government. From 1923 to 1925 he was a judge at the Weimar German Constitutional Court (Staatsgerichtshof) and continued to work as a lawyer in Berlin.[4][5][6]

At the beginning of the Nazi regime, Heine fled to Switzerland and died in Ascona.[7]

References

  1. ^ "biography" (PDF) (in German). gedenkkultur-dessau-rosslau.de.
  2. ^ "Der Freistaat Anhalt - Die Landesregierungen 1918–1933" (in German). gonschior.de.
  3. ^ "Der Freistaat Preußen - Die Staatsministerien 1918–1933" (in German). gonschior.de.
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  6. ^ Malettke, Klaus. "Biography" (in German). Neue Deutsche Biographie.
  7. ^ "Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum". daten.digitale-sammlungen.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-23.

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