Wolfgang Heine

Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German jurist and social democrat politician. Heine was a member of the Imperial parliament and the Weimar National Assembly, he served as Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt and Prussian Minister of the Interior and Justice.


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
NationalityGermany
Spouse(s)Cornelia Zeller
Emilie Vogel
Occupationlawyer

Biography

Heine was born in Posen, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (Poznań, Poland) to Otto Heine, a grammar school teacher at the Maria-Magdalena-Gymnasium in Breslau (Wrocław, Poland), and Meta née Bormann. He attended school in Weimar, Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra) and Breslau, and studied natural sciences and law at the Universities of Breslau, Tübingen and Berlin. He worked as a lawyer in Berlin and joined the SPD in 1884.[1]

He was elected a member of the Reichstag in 1898, initially representing Berlin and from 1912 on representing the constituency of Anhalt. After World War I Heine became Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt,[2] 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.
  4. Radbruch, Gustav; Schneider, Hans-Peter (2002). Staat und Verfassung. C.F. Müller. p. 249. ISBN 3-8114-2148-4.
  5. Lane, A. Thomas; Berger, Stefan (1995). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor leaders, A-L. Greenwood press. p. 415. ISBN 0-313-29899-8.
  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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