Friedrich Wilhelm Willeke

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Friedrich Willeke on an election poster for the 1957 federal election

Friedrich Wilhelm Willeke (* 7. December 1893 in Paderborn , † 24. June 1965 in Bonn ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Life and work

After graduating from primary school, Willeke attended the teacher training institute in Paderborn from 1908 to 1914. He then worked as a teacher until 1919. During the First World War, this activity was temporarily interrupted by military operations. After the end of the war, he made up his Abitur in 1918 and studied law and political science at the University of Münster until 1922 . Since 1920 he had been an assistant at the local political science institute of the sociologist Prof. Johann Plenge . Since 1919 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. Sauerlandia Munster . In 1921 he obtained his doctorate in political science. After completing his studies, he was the head of the municipal trade and vocational school in Recklinghausen until 1925 and also a lecturer at the local administration school. He was then to 1930 Magistrate (Transport Minister) in Recklinghausen and then to 1946 mayor in Marl . As mayor, after the pogrom night in 1938, he campaigned for the forced sale of the house of the Jewish trader Abrahamson, Loestrasse 26, to the NSDAP. After the acquisition by the Marl local group and the move into the new party headquarters, the local group leader Becker Willeke thanked him for the good cooperation.

Political party

In the Weimar Republic , Willeke belonged to the ZENTRUM . From May 1, 1933, he was a member of the NSDAP. In 1945 he participated in the founding of the CDU. 1947–1965 was chief executive of the local political association of the CDU / CSU.

MP

Willeke was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 until his death. He represented the constituency of Recklinghausen-Land in parliament. During his entire membership in the Bundestag, he was chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Local Policy and Public Welfare. On June 24, 1965, he suffered a heart attack during the ten-hour Bundestag debate on emergency legislation and died in his office.

Public offices

From 1930 to 1945 Willeke was mayor, from 1945 to 1946 deputy mayor of the office (from 1936 of the city) of Marl.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. What do we do when the war is over ?, Stations in life 1925–2010, Rolf Abrahamsohn / Bochum Center for City History / Jewish Museum Westphalia, Klartext-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8375-0334-0 , page 17
  2. What do we do when the war is over ?, Stations in life 1925–2010, Rolf Abrahamsohn / Bochumer Zentrum für Stadtgeschichte / Jewish Museum Westphalia, Klartext-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8375-0334-0 , page 88
  3. DIED: FRIEDRICH WILHELM WILLEKE . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1965 ( online ).
  4. FRIEDRICH WILHELM WILLEKE . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1965, p. 98 ( Online - June 30, 1965 ).