Anton Weber (politician, 1890)

Anton Weber (born October 31, 1890 in Horchheim , Koblenz district , † February 24, 1969 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

Weber was the son of a railroad worker and attended elementary school . He did an apprenticeship as a surveying technician at the Deutsche Reichsbahn and from 1910 worked at the Reichsbahndirektion Essen . From 1912 to 1914 he did his military service and was drafted immediately at the beginning of the First World War . After the war Weber worked for the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin .

In the Weimar Republic , Weber joined the German Center Party in 1920 and was elected to the district assembly of the Lichtenberg district in 1928 . During the Nazi era he worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn until the end of World War II .

After the Second World War, Weber joined the CDU in 1945 and immediately became chairman of the CDU Lichtenberg. In the first Berlin election in 1946 , he was elected to the Berlin city council, of which he was a member until 1950. Since the Soviet commandant 1948 Weber his ministry had dismissed, he moved to West Berlin to a similar place of the Berlin Transport Authority (BVG). In 1952 he became managing director of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives . In the Berlin election in 1954 he was elected to the House of Representatives. In the 1958 Berlin election he did not get a chance at first, but since Gerhard Schulze was elected as district councilor for the Kreuzberg district, Weber was able to move up in February 1959. In 1967 he left parliament for reasons of age.

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On his 70th birthday in 1960, Weber was given the honor of City Elder of Berlin . In 1965 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class. After his death, an honorary grave was set up for him at the Zehlendorf cemetery .

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 272 (331 pages).