Hans Weinberger

This article deals with the politician Hans Weinberger. On the mathematician see Hans F. Weinberger .

Johann (Hans) Weinberger (born November 26, 1898 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ; † August 3, 1976 in Munich ) was a German social and youth politician and worked in the Free State of Bavaria after 1945 .

biography

education and profession

Weinberger grew up in an orphanage in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he completed a scholarship from the City of Nuremberg to study at the German University of Politics in Berlin . Weinberger completed his studies with a state examination as a social welfare worker . After the founding of the social democratic Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft der Kinderfreunde (RAG), he took over its management. As a result of the prohibition of RAG after the seizure of power of the Nazis Weinberger in 1933 became unemployed. Through his intensely networked contacts, he was able to find a job as sales manager for the weekly magazine Blick in die Zeit , which was then also banned in 1935. Weinberger was involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime. The Gestapo arrested him in mid-June 1938 . He came into custody. Since he could not prove any concrete political crimes, Weinberger was released from prison at the end of November 1938.

After the Second World War , Hans Weinberger worked in the State Youth Welfare Office of the Free State of Bavaria from 1945 to 1966 .

Workers welfare

As the state chairman of the workers' welfare organization (AWO) from 1948 to 1969, he played a key role in building up the social democratic welfare organization . Numerous youth residences were built under his leadership. In 1962 he initiated a Bavarian state plan for elderly care . From 1952 to 1957 and from 1964 to 1969 Weinberger was a member of the Bavarian Senate as a representative of the AWO .

Honors

• The Marie Juchacz plaque of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt was awarded to him in 1971.
• The Hans-Weinberger-Akademie is named after an idea by Bertold Kamm (1926-2016), the then chairman of the AWO regional organization in Bavaria. The Academy was founded in 1981 by the AWO as an institution for training , further education and training .

editor

• Kinderland 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933. The yearbook for working-class children in town and country . Together with Mimi Weinberger. Berlin, Vorwärts, 1930–1933.
• The amateur play . Instructions and suggestions . Bollwerk-Verlag Karl Drott , Offenbach on 1946.
• Everyone is singing. A song lyrics collection. Verlag Das Volk, Munich around 1948.
• Kinderland 1949. The yearbook for children in town and country . Together with Mimi Weinberger. People and Time, Karlsruhe 1948.

literature

• Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , pp. 124-127. (Short biography).

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Hans Weinberger Academy named after him