Wilhelm Knothe (politician)
Wilhelm Knothe (born May 1, 1888 in Kassel , † February 20, 1952 in Bonn ) was a German politician of the SPD and briefly license holder of the Frankfurter Rundschau .
Life
After attending primary and secondary school, Wilhelm Knothe did an apprenticeship as a portfolio company and then completed commercial training at the commercial school in Offenbach . He worked as a leather goods salesman and took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1915 to 1918 .
Wilhelm Knothe had been a member of the SPD since 1906. After the end of the war he was a member of a workers 'and soldiers' council. In 1920 Knothe became party secretary of the SPD in Wetzlar and was a city councilor from 1921 to 1924 and a member of the district council and district committee from 1924 to 1933.
After the seizure of power of the Nazis he was briefly in "on March 12, 1933 protective custody taken". After 1933 Knothe was a member of the illegal executive committee of the SPD in southwest Germany and in June 1934 was sentenced by the National Socialists to two years in prison and ten months in prison for preparing for high treason . From 1940 onwards, Knothe was again working illegally and was arrested again in 1944. However, he managed to escape from the Frankfurt police prison.
After the American occupation of Frankfurt in 1945, Knothe took part in the reconstruction of the Frankfurt SPD. As their representative, the American occupying power appointed Knothe as the license holder of the Frankfurter Rundschau. As early as March 1, 1946, Knothe gave back his license because he wanted to devote himself fully to politics.
In the appointed advisory state committee and in the constitutional advisory state assembly (Greater Hesse) he was parliamentary group leader of the SPD. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament .
From May 9 to 11, 1946, the first SPD party congress after the end of the war took place in a hall of the Hanomag in Hanover . The delegates elected Kurt Schumacher as 1st chairman and Erich Ollenhauer and Wilhelm Knothe as deputy chairmen. On October 23, 1948 Knothe was elected chairman of the Hessian SPD.
In the first federal election in 1949, Knothe was directly elected to parliament in the Friedberg constituency, to which he belonged until his death in 1952.
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 302–303 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 218.
- "... towards democracy" - The meeting minutes of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946 - A documentation, edited by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl-Seibert , Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , p. 38 .
- Knothe, Wilhelm . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 637 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 496 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 433.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Knothe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Knothe, Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of November 18, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual proof
- ^ Siegfried Heimann : Against the party by Stalin's grace. In: Vorwärts 05/2011, p. 32.
Wilhelm Knothe (1945–1947) | Georg-August Zinn (1947–1969) | Albert Osswald (1969–1977) | Holger Börner (1977–1987) | Hans Krollmann (1987–1989) | Hans Eichel (1989-2001) | Gerhard Bökel (2001–2003) | Andrea Ypsilanti (2003-2009) | Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (2009–2019) | Nancy Faeser (since 2019)
Wilhelm Knothe (1945–1951) | Heinrich Fischer (1951–1954) | Willi Birkelbach (1954–1963) | Heinrich Hemsath (1963–1967) | Albert Osswald (1967–1975) | Rudi Arndt (1975–1980) | Willi Görlach (1980–1988) | Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (1988–1999) | Gerhard Bökel (1999–2001) | Gernot Grumbach (2001–2019) | Kaweh Mansoori (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knothe, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1952 |
| Place of death | Bonn |