Franz Weichsel

Franz Weichsel (born January 20, 1887 in Blankenberg ( East Prussia ), † March 4, 1964 in Magdeburg ) was a German politician and vice-president of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

After attending primary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then worked in various positions in his profession. From 1912 he worked as an employee in a large industrial company.

Even as a youngster, Vistula showed political and trade union interests. In 1910 he joined the Center Party . From 1918 onwards he held a leading position in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt and in the provincial association of Saxony. He became district chairman of an employee association that belonged to the then Christian-oriented German trade union federation . He became a member of the district board for the area of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia and was a member of the supervisory board of the general association.

He worked as a warehouse clerk in the Salbker plant of the Buckau R. Wolf machine factory and was a member of the works council that was formed in April / May 1945 immediately after the end of World War II . From July 1945 he was an unpaid city councilor in Magdeburg. Since the beginning of May 1945, Weichsel and Paul Gold have been trying to collect former members of the Center Party in the Magdeburg area. After the CDU's appeal for the founding of June 26, 1945, he became involved there. Since the CDU's Magdeburg district association was founded, he was chairman of the district board.

House in Faberstrasse 15 in 2010

In the first election to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in 1946, he was elected to the state parliament in electoral district 2. He was a member of the state parliament's committee for finance, budget and tax issues. On March 30, 1950, he became Vice President of the State Parliament.

Vistula was considered inappropriate. The state chairman of the CDU, Leo Herwegen , who was cooperative towards the ideas of the Soviet occupation authorities , announced in a board meeting on February 7, 1946 that he wanted to speak to Vistula “because of the unprofitable party work of the CDU in the Magdeburg district”.

In the course of the Stalinist campaigns against Mayor Rudolf Eberhard ( SED ) and other municipal officials, Vistula was also pushed out of his office as a city councilor. Like City Councilor Dr. Hans Schmidt ( LDP ) expressed concerns about the establishment of joint electoral lists and a joint program for all parties. Later he affirmed the decision of the parties and organizations of the GDR to summarize their candidates on a common list of the National Front and signed a call by the CDU to the voters for the local elections on June 23, 1957. On June 26, 1957 he was led by Otto Nuschke awarded the CDU badge of honor.

At least in the 1930s / 1940s he lived at Faberstrasse 15 in the Magdeburg district of Fermersleben .

literature

• Christina Trittel, The members of the first state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 179 f.
• Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , Mitteldeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Halle (Saale) 1947, p. 194.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Magdeburg death register 1964, Magdeburg City Archives
2. ^ Günter Hammerschmidt , Magdeburg company founder , Part IV, Magdeburg 2010, page 297.
3. ↑ Helmut Asmus, 1200 Years Magdeburg, 1945-2005 , Volume 4, 2009, page 97.
4. ↑ Christina Trittel, The Members of the First State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 180
5. ↑ Helmut Asmus, 1200 Years Magdeburg, 1945-2005 , Volume 4, 2009, page 276.
6. ↑ Not brotherly quarrels, not party quarrels . In: Neue Zeit , June 23, 1957, p. 1.
7. ↑ Distinguished Union Friends . In: Neue Zeit, Thursday June 27, 1957, p. 1.