Albert Wehr
Albert Wehr (born February 16, 1895 in Kempten (Allgäu) ; † May 30, 1987 there ) was a German SPD politician .
Wehr attended school in his hometown of Kempten, where he trained as a precision mechanic . He practiced this profession in several cities. During the First World War he was used as a soldier on airships on the Western Front. In 1919 he was elected chairman of the works council of the Kempten company Albert Ott , in the same year he became honorary head of the office of the metal workers' association. Wehr, who had meanwhile risen to become a master precision mechanic, founded his own business in Kempten in 1927. In 1932 he became Reichsbannerführer in Kempten, and the following year he was taken into protective custody. During the Second World War he was sergeant major in the air force units.
Wehr, who joined the SPD in 1918, began his political career as the local chairman of his party and a member of the city council. After the end of the war, he was appointed first mayor of Immenstadt in the Allgäu by the US military government in 1945, a post he held for a few months. In 1946 he was elected second mayor of Kempten. In this post he was confirmed six times, until 1972 he held the office. He played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the city. In addition, he was a member of the District Parliament of Swabia from 1954 and of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1958 to 1966 . In these he was elected both times via the constituency list in Swabia, he sat on the committee for food and agriculture. In 1959 he was also a member of the third federal assembly . Until 1973 he headed the organization of the Allgäu Festival Week , which he was instrumental in founding in 1949.
Since 1997 the local association of the SPD in Kempten has awarded the Albert-Wehr-Prize of Honor named after him.
Awards
- Honorary master's certificate of the German craft
- 1958: Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Kempten
- 1963: Federal Cross of Merit
- 1966: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1968: Bavarian Constitutional Medal
- 1974: Honorary citizen of the city of Kempten
Web links
- Albert Wehr in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- History of the SPD Kempten after 1945 (with information about Albert Wehr)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wehr, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master mechanic and politician (SPD), mayor and MdL Bavaria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempten (Allgäu) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1987 |
| Place of death | Kempten (Allgäu) |