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Wolfgang Heine | |
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 Wolfgang Heine | |
| Member of the Reichstag | |
| In office 1898–1920 | |
| Constituency | Berlin 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 theWeimar National Assembly | |
| In office 1919–1920 | |
| Member of the Constitutional Court | |
| In office 1923–1925 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1861-05-03)3 May 1861 |
| Died | 9 May 1944(1944-05-09) (aged 83) |
| Nationality | German |
| Spouse(s) | Cornelia Zeller Emilie Vogel |
| Occupation | Jurist, lawyer |
Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a Germanjurist andsocial democratic politician. Heine was a member of theImperial parliament and theWeimar National Assembly, he served asMinister President of the Free State of Anhalt and Prussian Minister of the Interior and Justice.
Heine was born inPosen,Province of Posen,Kingdom of Prussia (Poznań, Poland) to Otto Heine, a grammar school teacher at the Maria-Magdalena-Gymnasium inBreslau (Wrocław, Poland), and Meta née Bormann. He attended school inWeimar,Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra) and Breslau, and studied natural sciences and law at the Universities ofBreslau,Tübingen andBerlin. He worked as a lawyer in Berlin and joined theSPD in 1884.[1]
He was elected a member of theReichstag in 1898, initially representingBerlin and from 1912 on representing the constituency ofAnhalt. AfterWorld War I Heine became Minister President of theFree State of Anhalt,[2]Prussian Minister of the Interior and Prussian Minister of Justice.[3]
Heine was criticized for his attempt to negotiate during theKapp Putsch of March 1920 and lost his position in the Prussian government. From 1923 to 1925 he was a judge at theGerman 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 inAscona.[7]
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