Heinemann, Gustav

*		1899
†		1976

Beruf
German politician, lawyer

Überblick

	1917/18 soldier in World War I
	in the Weimar Republic he is a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP)
	1933-1939 lecturer at the University of Cologne
	1934-1945 member of the Confessional Church
	1936-1949 director of mines in Essen
	1945 co-founder of the CDU
	1946-1949 Chief Mayor in Essen
	concurrently Land Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia
	1947-1948 Chairman of the Synod of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD)
	1949/50 Federal Minister of the Interior in the first Adenauer cabinet
	1950 Heinemann resigns under protest because of Adenauer’s rearmament policy; resigns from the CDU
	1952 founder of the All-German People’s Party, dissolves the Party after defeat in the Federal election 1953
	1957 enters the SPD, SPD delegate in the Bundestag 1957-1969
	1966-1969 Minister of Justice in the “Grand Coalition”
	1969-1974 Federal President