Willy Max Rademacher

Willy Max Rademacher (born December 26, 1897 in Langenhagen near Hanover , † July 22, 1971 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the FDP .

Life and work

Rademacher was the owner of the forwarding company Ristelhuebers Nachf. GmbH . After the Second World War he was chairman of the Hamburg Freight Forwarders Association.

Political party

Rademacher, who joined the DDP after the First World War , was a member of the Hafenfreunde Association founded by Group Q (later Free Hamburg ) for camouflage purposes at the end of 1933 during the Nazi era .

Rademacher was one of the co-founders of the FDP in Hamburg . At the state party conference on July 27, 1946, he was elected chairman of the FDP Hamburg with 129 votes out of 186 against Eduard Wilkening . Until 1958, when he did not run because of the burdens of his Bundestag mandate, and again from 1966 to 1969 he was state chairman for a total of 15 years. He was a member of the FDP federal executive in various functions from 1951 to 1970. In 1957/58 he was deputy chairman of the FDP as a representative of the left-wing liberal wing.

MP

Tombstone Willy Max Rademacher, Ohlsdorf Cemetery

In 1946 Rademacher was elected to the first freely elected Hamburg parliament of the post-war period. He was a member of this until his election to the German Bundestag . He was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1965. While he was in 1949 and 1953 due to electoral agreements a. a. was able to win a direct mandate with the CDU in the Hamburg VIII constituency in the north of the city - in 1953 even with an absolute majority of the first votes - he was elected to parliament in the next legislative periods via the Hamburg state list of the FDP. In the Bundestag, Rademacher was particularly committed to promoting German shipping and the shipbuilding industry. From 1949 to 1953 he was chairman of the Bundestag committee for transport, from 1953 to 1957 its deputy chairman.

From November 29, 1961 to December 21, 1965, Rademacher was also a member of the European Parliament . There he worked primarily for a harmonization of the competition rules in the transport sector within the EEC .

In 1964 Rademacher had contact with the founders of the Action Group of Independent Germans (AUD), in particular his former party friend Hermann Schwann , but did not participate in the founding of this national-neutralist party.

Willy Max Rademacher's grave is on the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Q 5 (at the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery ).

literature

• Christoph Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945–1953. Start as a bourgeois left party , Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 (dissertation at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg 2004).
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 969-970.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945–1953 , p. 188.
2. ↑ Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945–1953 , p. 206.
3. ↑ Celebrity Graves