Friedrich Wegehaupt

Election poster of the CDU Schöneberg 1954: Speakers were Hans Schmiljan , Franz Schroeter and Friedrich Wegehaupt

Friedrich Wegehaupt (born August 25, 1904 in Dresden , † April 23, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( DStP , CDU ).

Friedrich Wegehaupt attended an elementary school and did an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman and industrial advertising specialist . In 1924 he joined the Young German Order and in 1930 the German State Party (DStP), he was a co-founder of the DStP in Saxony . He first became an editor at a local newspaper in 1932 and in 1934 switched to a large precision engineering company as advertising manager . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Wegehaupt was in the resistance and was briefly imprisoned.

After the Second World War , Wegehaupt joined the CDU in Dresden in 1945 and one year later became the owner of an advertising agency for film advertising. In October 1948, he was imprisoned for political reasons and a half years prison sentenced, he had to settle in Dresden. In April 1950 he was released there and fled to West Berlin . He then co-founded the “Comradeship of Former Political Prisoners from the Soviet Occupation Zone ” in 1951 , and later also became its chairman. In 1953 Wegehaupt founded the "General Association of Soviet Zone Refugees", which in 1974 was renamed the "Bund der Mitteldeutsche". For many years he was head of the Berlin office of Federal Minister Ernst Lemmer . He later co-founded the “ Haus am Checkpoint Charlie ” museum .

Honorary grave of Friedrich Wegehaupt

In the Berlin election in 1954 , Wegehaupt was elected to the district council in the Schöneberg district. In the 1963 election he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged until March 1967.

Wegehaupt received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . In 1983 he was honored with the title of City Elder of Berlin . His grave in the Schöneberg I cemetery in the Berlin-Schöneberg district is designated as an honorary grave of the city of Berlin (field 11-282).

literature

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 388.

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personal data
SURNAME	Wegehaupt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	April 23, 2000
Place of death	Berlin