Friedrich Carl Marwede

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Friedrich Carl Marwede (born November 15, 1895 in Bremen , † May 28, 1969 in Bremen) was a German editor, officer and politician ( DNVP , CDU ) in Bremen and a member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Marwede was the son of a merchant. He attended the Neue Gymnasium in Bremen and studied law and history in Switzerland . He was a soldier in World War I and was taken prisoner by the Russians in Siberia in 1916 . In 1920 he was able to flee. From 1923 to 1926 he was editor-in-chief of the Bremer Zeitung . In 1926 he became the chief editor of the Kösliner Zeitung. After the National Socialists came to power , he lost this job.

He became an officer in the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW) and was active in the intelligence service in the Foreign Office / Defense , (Group II: Relations with foreign armed forces ) in a variety of activities, including through contacts (1939) with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA). In occupied Belgium he supported separatist Flemish groups, among other things as a superior of Alfred Toepfer and other secret agents. At the end of World War II , he was taken prisoner by the British as a lieutenant colonel in 1945 .

After the war, Marwede ran a translation agency in Bremen. At times he also called his profession a "speaker".

politics

Marwede became a member of the right-wing conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) and managing director of the party in Bremen. From 1923 to 1924 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship .

He joined the CDU after the Second World War and was co-editor of the party newspaper Echo . In 1950 he founded the working group for democratic circles .

From 1953 to 1963 he was re-elected to the Bremen citizenship for the CDU and worked there in various deputations . From 1955 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and from 1957 to 1959 parliamentary group chairman . In this office he succeeded Rudolf Rübberdt ; his successor was Karl Krammig . In the citizenry he was active in the areas of culture, theater, Radio Bremen and the establishment of a new university .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Burkhard Dietz & Helmut Gabel & Ulrich Tiedau Eds .: The Reach for the West. The "west research" of the national and national sciences on the north-western European area 1919 - 1960. Waxmann, Münster 2003 ISBN 3830911440 (2 vols .; online searchable; among other things about the subversion of the Nazi military secret service agents) Marwede vol. 2 p. 1072 u. ö.