Heini Becker

{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1935)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Heinrich Thomas Becker | honorific_suffix = AM | party = LCL (1970-1974)<br>Liberal (1974-1997) | order = | constituency_MP = Hanson | parliament = South Australian | term_start = 30 May 1970 | term_end = 10 Dec 1993 | deputy = | predecessor = New District | successor = Stewart Leggett | constituency_MP2 = Peake | parliament2 = South Australian | term_start2 = 11 Dec 1993 | term_end2 = 10 Oct 1997 | predecessor2 = Vic Heron | successor2 = Tom Koutsantonis | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1935|01|18}} | birth_place = | spouse = | occupation = | signature = | footnotes = }}

'''Heinrich Thomas "Heini" Becker''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 18 January 1935) is a former South Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seats of Hanson from 1970 to 1993 and Peake from 1993 to 1997 for the Liberal Party. He was on the Public Accounts Committee and the Economic and Finance Committee.<ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl|pid=2495|name=Heinrich (Heini) Thomas Becker AM|former=yes|access-date=10 November 2022}}</ref>

Becker's father was Dr. Johannes Heinrich Becker, who was interned during World War II for having Nazi connections, and was deported to West Germany in 1947.<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Perkins|first=John|year=1993|volume=13|id2=becker-johannes-heinrich-9467|title=Becker, Johannes Heinrich (1898–1961)|access-date=2022-11-10}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-sa-la}} {{s-new|seat}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Hanson|years=1970–1993}} {{s-aft|after=Stewart Leggett}} {{s-bef|before=Vic Heron}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Peake|years=1993–1997}} {{s-aft|after=Tom Koutsantonis}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Becker, Heini}} Category:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Category:1935 births Category:Living people Category:Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of South Australia Category:Members of the Order of Australia Category:Australian Lutherans Category:Liberal and Country League politicians Category:Australian people of German descent