| Wolfgang Heine | |
| Birth Date: | 3 May 1861 |
| Birth Place: | Posen, Province of Posen, Prussia (Poznań, Poland) |
| Death Place: | Ascona, Switzerland |
| Nationality: | German |
| Office1: | Member of the Reichstag |
| Term Start1: | 1898 |
| Term End1: | 1920 |
| Constituency1: | Berlin 3 (1898-1912) Anhalt I (1912-1920) |
| Office2: | Minister President of the Free State of Anhalt |
| Term Start2: | 14 November 1918 |
| Term End2: | July 1919 |
| Office3: | Prussian Minister of Justice |
| Term Start3: | 27 November 1918 |
| Term End3: | 25 March 1919 |
| Office4: | Prussian Minister of the Interior |
| Term Start4: | 25 March 1919 |
| Term End4: | March 1920 |
| Office5: | Member of the Weimar National Assembly |
| Term Start5: | 1919 |
| Term End5: | 1920 |
| Office6: | Member of the Constitutional Court |
| Term Start6: | 1923 |
| Term End6: | 1925 |
| Occupation: | Jurist, lawyer |
| Spouse: | Cornelia Zeller Emilie Vogel |
Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German jurist and social democratic 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.
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 German Constitutional Court 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]