Gustav Wischnövski

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Gustav Wischnövski (born March 29, 1872 in Alt Ukta , Sensburg district , † October 15, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German politician (DNVP).

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Wischnövski attended elementary school in Alt Ukta as well as city and community schools in the Rhine (East Prussia province) and Sensburg . Then he did an apprenticeship as a baker and confectioner in the Rhine. A few years of wandering followed, during which Wischnövski worked as a baker in various cities. In 1898 he married. After he had been the head of various gymnastics and handicraft clubs as a teenager, Wischnövski became chairman of the Berlin journeyman bakers' associations in 1904. In 1905 he founded the Association of Bakers (Confectioners) Journeyman in Germany , which elected him as its first chairman.

From 1909 Wischnövski edited the magazine of German Bakers and Confectioners , the official organ of his association. In 1910 he became the treasurer and third chairman of the main committee of national workers' and professional associations, and he also became the first chairman of the Federation of German Skilled Craftsmen. He also became first chairman of the National Union of National Unions. In addition to this activity, he also headed the editorial department of the magazine of German baker and confectioner apprentices .

From 1914 Wischnövski took part in the First World War as a volunteer . As a member of Landwehr Regiment No. 24, he witnessed the fighting in the east near Kowna , Wilna and Praschnitz . On May 8, 1915, he was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class. The Iron Cross First Class followed at the end of the same year. After all the leaders of the Bakers' Union had been drafted, Wischnövski was reclaimed for his movement and was elected as a steward for the War Office. After the November Revolution of 1918 he became a member of the Steglitz municipal parliament .

After the war Wischnövski joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In the following years he was a member of the board of the DNVP and the RAA. He was also a member of the DNVP-internal Reich Committee for small and medium-sized businesses .

In May 1924 Wischnövski was elected as his party's candidate for constituency 2 (Berlin) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged until December of the same year. In the same year he was elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1928.

Fonts

  • The political path of the young craftsmen , (= German National Leaflet No. 310) Berlin 1927.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hartmut Roder : The Christian National German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) , 1986, p. 388.
personal data
SURNAME Wischnövski, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt Ukta , Sensburg district
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1938
Place of death Berlin