Gustav Klingelhöfer

Gustav Klingelhöfer (born October 16, 1888 in Metz ; † January 16, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

education and profession

After graduating from high school , Klingelhöfer studied economics . He did military service in World War I and was elected a member of the soldiers' council of his unit at the end of the war . A short time later he became chairman of the works council general assembly. In 1918 he became editor of the weekly newspaper Süddeutsche Freiheit . At the same time he was deputy commander-in-chief of the German "Red Army" under Ernst Toller . Because of that, he was in June 1919 five and a half years imprisonment convicted, he in the fortress Niederschönenfeld was serving. After his release from prison, he was business editor for the SPD newspaper Vorwärts from 1924 to 1933 .

After the Second World War he was briefly editor-in-chief of the SPD newspapers Einheit and Der Sozialdemokrat .

His wife was the doctor Katharina Klingelhöfer (1889–1977), who was also a member of the Berlin House of Representatives.

Party politician

In 1917, Klingelhöfer joined the SPD. In 1919 he was involved in the formation of the Munich Soviet Republic . As a member of the State Soldiers' Council, he briefly belonged to the Provisional National Council in Bavaria, which was formed after the revolution .

In 1945 he headed the political office of the SPD Berlin . In 1945/46 he was first Secretary of Economic Policy under Otto Grotewohl , then chief secretary in the party's central committee . At the "60s Conference" of the SPD and KPD on 20./21. December 1945 he spoke to himself - like z. B. also Gustav Dahrendorf  - against the merger of the two parties. In March 1946, he resigned his offices in the Central Committee in protest against the planned compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD into the SED . From 1948 to 1950 he was a member of the state executive committee of the West Berlin SPD.

MP

Klingelhöfer became a member of the Bavarian Revolutionary Parliament in 1918. From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the city ​​council of Greater Berlin and then until 1953 of the House of Representatives of West Berlin . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957 as a Berlin MP .

Berlin City Councilor and Senator

In November 1946 he was appointed to the city council of Greater Berlin . The deputy Soviet city commandant Ivan Yelisarow removed him and Ernst Reuter from their offices on November 16, 1948. Until 1951 he was Senator for Economics and Businesses in West Berlin .

Honors

Berlin street sign of Klingelhöferstrasse with dedication

Gustav Klingelhöfer's grave of honor at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

On October 16, 1958, Klingelhöfer was awarded the title of City Elder , and on October 16, 1960, the Berlin Senate awarded him the Ernst Reuter plaque . The Gustav Klingelhöfer Foundation is also named after him. In 1961 the previous Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse in Berlin-Tiergarten was named after him.

Klingelhöfer was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin in Section VI-W-199a / c.

Fonts

• Gustav Klingelhöfer: To the rights of the 18 million: A victory in the cold war and its consequences . In: Berlin Voice , July 11, 1953

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 146-147 (331 pages).
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 429.
• Ditmar Staffelt : The Reconstruction of Berlin Social Democracy 1945/46 and the Unity Question - a contribution to the post-war history of the lower and middle organizational structures of the SPD , Verlag Peter Lang 1986, ISBN 978-3-8204-9176-0 , p. 431.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Klingelhöfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography - SPD Berlin
• Gustav Klingelhöfer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klingelhöferstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )