Arthur Raschke

Arthur Ferdinand Raschke (born June 1, 1883 in Wilhelmshaven ; † November 11, 1967 there ) was a German politician and Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven.

Career

Raschke completed a four-year locksmith apprenticeship until 1901 and then went on a hike . From 1905 to 1907 he did military service with the 1st Lorraine Pioneer Battalion No. 16 in Metz and then joined the Catholic Journeyman Association (Kolping Society) and the Christian Metalworkers Union. In 1910 he established himself as an independent master locksmith in Wilhelmshaven. After participating in the First World War , he was elected as a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament as a member of the German Center Party in 1919 . He was a member of the state parliament until September 23, 1922. Subsequently, Raschke was a member of the Reichstag from 1922 to 1924 , and from 1919 to 1933 also a member of the Rüstringen city ​​council.

After the end of the Second World War , Raschke was appointed to the trust committee in Wilhelmshaven, which was convened by the British military government on July 19, 1945 due to his political activities in the center during the Weimar Republic . This committee, which actually had no decision-making powers, was appointed city council on October 24, 1945. From the elections of 1946, Raschke was a member of the city council without interruption until his death. With the approval of party district associations in Wilhelmshaven, Raschke was then one of the co-founders of the CDU there on June 19, 1946 . From January to November 1946 he was their spokesman in the Appointed Landtag of Oldenburg and from 1947 to 1962 their district association chairman . He was then elected honorary chairman.

When the City Council represented in the bourgeois parties CDU in elections in 1952 FDP , DP , DRP , BHE and the non-party to a legal block merged, this won surprisingly in the SPD - stronghold Wilhelmshaven. Raschke was elected mayor, the chairman of the right-wing bloc , Friedrich Peters , was elected mayor. According to an agreement, Raschke changed office with Peters in 1953 (until 1954). Due to the resulting disputes, the electoral alliance ultimately broke up and Peters was elected mayor with the help of the SPD. In 1953 Raschke became honorary chairman of the Oldenburg crafts, from 1954 to 1960 he was a district master craftsman. In addition to his numerous other offices, he was a member of the supervisory board of Volksbank Wilhelmshaven from 1946 to 1958 (its honorary chairman since 1959) and, after the re-establishment from 1948 to 1952, chairman of the Association for Industry, Crafts, Trade and Commerce. In 1954 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his services .

family

Raschke was married to Anna geb. Küster (October 20, 1889 - May 11, 1953). The marriage had six children.

source

• Arthur Ferdinand Raschke. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 583-584 ( online ).
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 300.