Fritz Weiberg

Fritz Weiberg (born December 11, 1900 in Braunschweig , † September 15, 1977 in Wolfsburg ) was a German trade unionist and Lower Saxony politician of the SPD .

Life

Weiberg attended middle school in Bernburg / Saale. After graduating from commercial school, he learned a profession as a dairy worker and continued his training at the Institute for Fermentation Industry in Berlin. From 1923 to 1933 he was a works council and functionary of the factory workers' union . Professionally, he worked as a plant manager in various companies in the food industry and made several valuable inventions for this industrial sector. In 1934 he passed his exams as a distillery engineer at the experimental and training institute for alcohol production and became operations manager in various companies. In 1943 he took over the flake factory in Vorsfelde and Croya before taking over as director of the cooperative Braunschweig canning factory in Vorsfelde from 1945 to 1964 .

After the elimination of the Nazi regime Weiberg member was the appointed and elected county council and district administrator of the district of Helmstedt and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament of the 1st and 2nd term on April 20, 1947 to May 5, 1955; from February 22, 1950 to April 30, 1951 he was chairman of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry. From 1946 to 1968 he worked as a district administrator and at times also acting mayor of his place of residence, the then city of Vorsfelde (today Wolfsburg). Weiberg particularly campaigned for the solution of social problems in the post-war period , which included the integration of displaced persons and refugee families and the elimination of the housing shortage. In alternation with Max Valentin, he was mayor of Vorsfeld for a time and, as a district administrator in the Helmstedt district council, campaigned for Vorsfeld issues (housing construction, Allersee , water supply, zone border district ). He was also a co-founder of the Helmstedt residential building and small settlement GmbH .

Honors

• Weiberg was the bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, and the Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .
• The city of Vorsfelde granted him honorary citizenship on May 16, 1965 before it was incorporated into Wolfsburg in 1972 .
• A street in Vorsfelde is named after Fritz Weiberg.

See also

• List of honorary citizens of Wolfsburg

literature

• Matthias Brodtmann: History of the apron. Volume 2. Matthias Brodtmann, Wolfsburg 1995, ISBN 3-929464-02-2 (= texts on the history of Wolfsburg. Volume 26) OCLC 13894522 , p. 177.
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 401, OCLC 312361812 .
• Werner Strauss: Weiberg, Fritz. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 642-643 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Strauss: Weiberg, Fritz. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 642-643 .
2. ↑ These citizens have shaped our city. - The honorary citizens. ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on braunschweiger-zeitung.de (PDF, p. 20.)