Ernst Wilhelm Widmann

Ernst Wilhelm Widmann (born December 30, 1876 in Eßlingen am Neckar ; † May 18, 1955 in Offenbach am Main ) was a Hessian politician ( SPD ) and a former member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

family

Ernst Wilhelm Widmann was the son of the shoemaker Gottlob Friedrich Widmann and his wife Johanna Veronika née Nüßle. Widmann, who was a Protestant, married Maria Luise née Renz.

politics

Ernst Wilhelm Widmann initially worked as a belt maker. From 1906 to 1918 he was managing director of the German Metalworkers' Association. 1918/1919 he was party secretary in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district , from 1920 state secretary of the SPD Hesse .

Ernst Wilhelm Widmann was a councilor in Göppingen from 1907 to 1910 . From 1910 to 1913 he was a member of the Offenbach Citizens' Committee and from 1922 to 1925 he was a city councilor there. He was a member of the Hessian state parliament in all seven electoral terms of the Weimar Republic. With the seizure of power by the Nazis, he could not continue his political work.

literature

• Wolfgang Reuter: Wilhelm Widmann (1876–1955) , In: Angelika Arenz-Morch, Stefan Heinz (Hrsg.): Trade unionists in the Osthofen concentration camp 1933/34. Biographical manual (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration , Vol. 8). Metropol, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86331-439-2 , pp. 540–551.
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 270.

Web links

• Widmann, Ernst Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of May 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).