Heinrich Glasmeyer

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Heinrich Glasmeyer
Member of the Bundestag
In office
7 September 1949  6 October 1957
Personal details
Born(1893-04-04)4 April 1893
Died2 January 1974(1974-01-02) (aged 80)
PartyCentre Party
CDU

Heinrich Glasmeyer (April 4, 1893 – January 2, 1974) was a German politician of the Centre Party and, later, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). During the Weimar Republic, he was elected to the provincial parliament of the Province of Westphalia but was removed from this seat after the Nazi seizure of power. After the end of the Second World War, he returned to political life and was elected to the Bundestag where he served from 1949 to 1957.[1]

Glasmeyer was born in the village of Steinbeck, part of the municipality of Recke in Westphalia. He completed an apprenticeship as a journeyman baker. He then obtained his Abitur and volunteered for military service in World War I, serving from 1914 to 1918. After the war ended, he studyied political science and Catholic theology. In 1919, Glasmeyer joined the Catholic-oriented Centre Party. From 1922 onward, he worked as an independent farmer and earned a doctorate in 1926 with a dissertation on Bourgeois Society and Religion. He was elected as a deputy to the provincial parliament of the Province of Westphalia in the election of March 1933, but lost his seat after only a few months when the Nazi Party enacted a law banning all other political parties.

Post-war return to politics

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