Adolf Leweke

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Adolf Leweke (born December 18, 1892 in Elberfeld , † February 23, 1970 in Remagen ) was a Hessian politician ( center , CDU ) and a former member of the state assembly of Greater Hesse that advised the constitution .

Life

Adolf Leweke attended elementary and middle school and then the Academy of Work and Engineering School. Professionally he worked as a train driver and since 1921 as a member of the board of the railway workers' union in Berlin. In 1925 he became managing director of the Frankfurt theater community and the state association of Hessen of the Bühnenvolksbund eV and director of the traveling stages of the Bühnenvolksbund in southwest Germany. From the beginning of the war he worked at VDM ( United German Metalworks ) in Frankfurt-Heddernheim. He also worked as an editor, publisher, standards engineer and ministerial advisor. In 1952 he became head of department at the DGB executive board in Düsseldorf.

Adolf Leweke was a member of the center and the Windthorstbund until 1933 .

On May 23, 1933 he joined the NSDAP .

In 1945 he was one of the founding members of the CDU. In 1945/46 he was chairman of the Frankfurt Citizens' Council and, after the first free local elections, from 1946 to 1952 city councilor in Frankfurt am Main and deputy city councilor from 1946 to 1948.

From February 26, 1946 to July 14, 1946 he was a member of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse and from July 15, 1946 to September 30, 1946, a member of the State Assembly of Greater Hesse that advised the constitution.

family

Adolf Leweke was married to Margarethe, née Gerst (1896 to 1965). Best man at the wedding in 1922 in Berlin in 1922 was Jakob Kaiser . Adolf Leweke is the father of the Frankfurt journalist Wendelin Leweke (1927 to 1996), his second son Adolf (1923 to 1993) was an architect in Kaarst.

One of the founders of the Frankfurter Rundschau, Wilhelm Karl Gerst , was his brother-in-law.

Honors

Adolf-Leweke-Strasse in Frankfurt-Eckenheim is named after him.

literature

  • Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study “Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members” of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project “Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse” . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 24, 45 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  • 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. 321–322 ( 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. 242.
  • "... towards democracy" - The 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 , page 41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 24 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Leweke, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1970
Place of death Remagen