Friedrich Wehmer

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Friedrich Wehmer (born December 25, 1885 in Plate ; † February 7, 1964 in Schwerin ) was a social democratic member of the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Schwerin during the Weimar Republic and chairman of the central board of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) from 1950 to 1964 . From 1950 to 1963 he represented the VdgB in the People's Chamber of the GDR as parliamentary group chairman .

Life

As the son of a forest and brickworker, Wehmer attended elementary school from 1892 to 1900 . He then trained as a farm worker until 1903, and then worked, with interruptions, as a forest worker at the Buchholz Forestry Office until 1941. At the same time, Wehmer worked as a small farmer from 1912 to 1955 by leasing a small farm. From 1905 to 1907 Wehmer did his military service . Recruited at the beginning of the war in 1914, he was a soldier until 1918 during the First World War . After the First World War, Wehmer began to get involved politically. 1918 became a member of a workers and soldiers council . He returned to Plate and was chairman of the works council of his forestry office. In February 1919 he joined the SPD , in the same year he also joined the German Agricultural Workers' Association.

In October 1919, Wehmer was elected mayor of Plate, which he remained until 1933. In 1920 he became a member of the SPD parliamentary group in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state parliament, in which he also sat until 1933. In his home town he also headed the SPD local group as chairman from 1923 to 1933. As part of his parliamentary activities, Wehmer held the office of chairman of the Amtslandkrankenkasse in Schwerin from 1929 to 1933 and was also a member of the Chamber of Agriculture for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the regional administrative court during this time.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Wehmer was dismissed from all of his functions. He was deposed as mayor. Until 1941, Wehmer continued to work in the forest. Afterwards he became managing director of the Raiffeisengenossenschaft in Plate until he was taken into protective custody in the Dreibergen penitentiary near Bützow in August 1944 as part of the " Action Grid ".

After the end of the war, Wehmer first became a member of the SPD again. He was a co-founder of the SPD local group in Plate and became its local chairman. In 1945 he was appointed mayor of Plate by the occupying power. He held this office until April 1946. Probably due to his extensive experience and his membership in parliament, Wehmer was appointed in September 1945 as a member of the state commission for the implementation of the land reform . At the same time he became increasingly involved in the newly founded Association of Mutual Farmers Aid . In April 1946, with the union of the KPD and SPD , Wehmer became a member of the SED.

From May 1946, Wehmer initially worked as the state secretary of the VdgB. In October 1946 he was elected in the state elections in Mecklenburg as a member of the VdgB in the state parliament, in which he sat in the first electoral term. He had previously been a member of the Advisory Assembly as a board member. From 1947 to 1950 he also held the office of chairman of the VdgB state board in Mecklenburg. In November 1947, Wehmer was elected deputy chairman of the VdgB central board. In the German People's Council , the Provisional People's Chamber and from October 1950 in the People's Chamber, he held the office of parliamentary group chairman of the VdgB and cooperatives until 1963. He was there from 1950 to 1958 also deputy chairman of the grace committee. In November 1950 he was finally elected chairman of the central board of the VdgB. He held this office until his death.

From 1946 to 1949 Wehmer was a member of the state executive committee of the Mecklenburg SED . From June 1954 until his death he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1053.
  • Klaus Schwabe: Between the crown and the swastika. The activity of the social democratic parliamentary group in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state parliament 1919–1932 . Verlag A. Tykve, Böblingen 1994, p. 199.
  • Martin Schumacher: MdL The end of parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 172.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . Lit, Münster 2002, p. 969.
  • Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory. Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945–1953 . BWV Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 528.
  • Siegfried Kuntsche, Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Wehmer, Friedrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic , 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag Berlin, 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , October 7, 1954, p. 4

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personal data
SURNAME Wehmer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (VdgB), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Plate
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1964
Place of death Schwerin