Friedrich Witt (politician)

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Adolf Friedrich Witt (born April 3, 1895 in Hamburg ; † February 11, 1966 ) was a German politician ( DP ).

Life

Witt, who lived on the Uhlenhorst , attended the secondary school of the Johanneum on Armgartstrasse. After secondary school , he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg and stayed in England for 16 months in 1913/14. During the First World War he was a reserve officer. In 1919 he went into business for himself as a road construction company by taking over the family business JC Witt Successor, founded by an ancestor in 1854, which still exists in Langenhorn today . In the same year he joined the national liberal German People's Party .

After the Second World War , he initially participated in the Father City Association of Hamburg , which had been founded by Paul de Chapeaurouge , who was also formerly a member of the DVP , and became secretary there. After the general election in 1946 , in which the VBH had not been able to participate, Witt saw no more chance for the Vaterstädtischer Bund as an independent force alongside the other parties he characterized as “liberal right-wing parties”, such as the German Conservative Party and the Lower Saxony State Party exist and therefore advocated a “liberal right-wing bloc”. But he was just as unable to assert himself at de Chapeaurouge, as was Erwin Jacobi , who was also promoting an overall organization and who also came from the DVP, at the conservatives. Thereupon he moved - like Jacobi - to the NLP, which had just been renamed the German party . For this, he was in state elections in 1949 elected to the state parliament. There he belonged, among other things, to the citizens' committee . After the former Nazi police senator Alfred Richter was elected deputy state chairman of the German party in Hamburg at the beginning of April 1952 , this led to a controversy within the state association, with Witt and other party members opposing Richter. A total of six of the nine DP MPs in Hamburg's citizenship , in addition to Witt also Erwin Jacobi , Wilhelm Ziegeler , Werner Luckow , Gerhard Schubert and Fritz Starck , stated that they had worked with Richter “because of their political function and responsibility in earlier times " reject. In addition, he was also elected to the Hamburg-Nord district committee in 1949 , to which he also belonged from 1953 to 1957, when he was elected as a DP member on the list of the Hamburg block .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Source : Database of Members of the Hamburg Parliament, as of October 4, 2018. OTRS-Ticket = Ticket: 2018100410006149
  2. ^ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party , Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, page 266, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 .
  3. ^ So Witt in a letter to de Chapeaurouge of October 27, 1946, quoted from Brauers, pp. 266 f.
  4. ↑ "East-West axis this year" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 15, 1953, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "Conflict in the German Party" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of April 3, 1952, accessed on September 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Witt, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witt, Adolf Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1966