Friedrich-Wilhelm Evers

Friedrich-Wilhelm Evers (born April 22, 1914 in Süpplingen , Helmstedt district, † August 27, 2003 ibid) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

He joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1932 (membership book number 1.285137). In 1933 Evers passed his Abitur and then began his work as a career officer. Most recently he was a battalion commander in the German Africa Corps with the rank of major . He was badly wounded in the Soviet Union during World War II . After the war, he was taken prisoner by the Americans for three years . After his release from captivity, he retrained into a construction profession and passed his master mason examination in 1951. In the following years he built up a construction business. On the side, he ran his father's farm between 1951 and 1974.

Evers became a CDU member and a member of the executive board of the CDU district association in Helmstedt . He also became a member of the advisory board of the Braunschweigische Landessparkasse as an assessor . Since 1952 he was a councilor and from 1956 to 1976 he was elected mayor of the community of Süpplingen . Since 1970 he was also a councilor and between 1970 and 1976 mayor of the municipality of Nord-Elm . As early as 1966 he became a member of the district council and since 1972 he has held the office of district administrator of the Helmstedt district . For a period of three years he was a member of the association assembly of the association for the greater Braunschweig area. Evers was a member of several different committees of the Lower Saxony district assembly.

Evers was elected a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the ninth and tenth electoral periods from June 21, 1978 to June 20, 1986.

Awards

• Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1984: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown roots - old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP. On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. (PDF file; 1.73 MB) p. 19.
• 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. 91.