Eduard Wilkening
Eduard Wilkening (born April 29, 1889 , † March 29 or 30, 1959 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the FDP . From 1946 to 1949 he was parliamentary group leader of his party in the Hamburg parliament .
Life and politics
Eduard Wilkening was an export merchant in the paper wholesaling business and belonged to a Freemason fraternity.
In 1933 he became an honorary member of the board of the Hamburg branch of the " Hansa Association for Trade, Commerce and Industry ". Shortly after his entry, the federal government was brought into line in the spring of 1933 and dissolved a year later. From 1934 Wilkening joined the bourgeois group Free Hamburg around the liberal politician Friedrich Ablass , which resisted National Socialism .
After the end of the Nazi regime , the Bund Free Hamburg (BFH) was founded from the circle around Friedrich Ablass in May 1945. Eduard Wilkening was elected chairman at the founding meeting.
On September 20, 1945, he was also elected deputy chairman of the “ Party of Free Democrats ” (PFD), with Christian Koch becoming chairman . Right from the start, the two chairmen had fundamentally different ideas for the political direction of the new party. Wilkening saw the future in anti-socialism and in the bourgeois gathering movement of Paul de Chapeaurouge and not like Koch, who found a resumption of the social-liberal coalition from the Weimar period as desirable. From February to October 1946 he was also a member of the Appointed Citizenship , to which the British military government had appointed him as a Liberal Politician. After Koch's resignation from the office of state chairman in July 1946, Wilkening applied for the vacant post, but was defeated by Willy Max Rademacher at the party congress on July 27, 1946 , who received 129 of the 186 votes cast.
After the first free state election after the war in October 1946, Wilkening was the only member of the state executive of the party, which has now been renamed the FDP, who opposed talks with the Social Democrats. He was of the opinion that Marxists and liberals had too different views, especially on economic policy. In November 1946 he resigned his offices in the state executive, but in the same month received the post of FDP parliamentary group leader in the citizenry, which he held until 1949.
In 1949 he resigned from the FDP, his successor as parliamentary group leader was Edgar Engelhard . In the following year he joined the party “Liberal Association” of his former adversary Christian Koch. In the last years of his life he no longer appeared politically.
Individual evidence
literature
- Christof Brauers , The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party , Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5
- Leif Schrader et al., 60 years of political liberalism in Hamburg , commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the FDP Hamburg, Hamburg 2005
Eduard Wilkening (1946–1949) | Edgar Engelhard (1949–1953) | Anton Reader (1953–1957, FDP group in the Hamburg block ) | Peter-Heinz Müller-Link (1957–1961) | Alfred Frankenfeld (1961–1966) | Peter-Heinz Müller-Link (1966–1974) | Gerhard Moritz Meyer (1974–1977) | Maja Stadler-Euler (1977–1978) | Wilhelm Rahlfs (1987) | Frank-Michael Wiegand (1987–1991) | Reinhard Soltau (1991–1993) | Rudolf Lange (2001) | Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen (2001-2004) | Katja Suding (2011–2017) | Michael Kruse and Anna-Elisabeth von Treuenfels-Frowein (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilkening, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1889 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1959 or March 30, 1959 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |