Heinrich Kilger the Elder
Heinrich Kilger (born February 5, 1881 in Niederwinkling , Lower Bavaria , † May 5, 1965 in Heidelberg ) was a German beer brewer and social democratic functionary.
Life
In the years of wandering Kilger 1902 came to Heidelberg. He joined the trade union and the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He found work at the Heidelberger Aktienbrauerei Kleinlein . After he married Emma Schüler in 1906 , his son Heinrich Kilger the Younger was born in March 1907 . His mother died in 1908. From 1908 to 1914 a member of the Heidelberg Citizens' Committee, Kilger was elected city councilor on February 9, 1909 and February 16, 1912. The second marriage with Lina Krämer is the result of the son Adolf Kilger (died 1945) and the daughter Lina Kilger. During the November Revolution , Kilger was a member of the Heidelberg Workers 'and Soldiers' Council . Elected to the city council on June 12, 1919 , he headed the secretariat of the SPD's 4th agitation district in Baden in 1919/20; it included the districts of Mannheim, Weinheim, Heidelberg, Mosbach, Wiesloch, Sinsheim, Adelsheim, Buchen, Wertheim and Tauberbischofsheim. On December 4, 1922 and November 15, 1926 he was re-elected as city council. In 1929 he sat on the board of the general local health insurance fund (which he rebuilt like the Heidelberg employment office after the war). On November 16, 1930 he was elected a city councilor. In 1932 the granddaughter Editha was born . After the seizure of power , he was removed from office in 1933 and imprisoned in Heidelberg prison for two weeks. The loss of earnings between 1933 and 1942 amounted to 21,950 Reichsmarks. In July 1944 he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp for over three weeks . The verdict for “despising state organs” was settled by amnesty . In 1945 he was reinstated in his office and appointed head of the state insurance company. Elected to the SPD city council on May 26, 1946 and December 7, 1947, he retired in 1948. From 1949 to 1953 he was second deputy chairman of the Heidelberg tenants' association. On January 5, 1954, he resigned from Heidelberg's city council. He spoke High German with a Lower Bavarian accent. He died at the age of 84 and was buried in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) .
"The SPD is the best party, you just can't let it rule."
literature
- Rolf Maier: Local elections in Heidelberg from 1875–1984. Results, names, documents, comments . (Boxberg-Gymnasium, series of publications, 2) Heidelberg 1984, pp. 49, 54, 60, 64, 70, 73.
- Walter Mühlhausen: Christian Stock 1910–1932. From Heidelberg workers' secretary to prime minister of Hesse . Heidelberg 1996.
- Friederike Reutter: Heidelberg 1945–1949. On the political history of a city in the post-war period . (Book series of the city of Heidelberg, vol. 5, on behalf of the city of Heidelberg, edited by Peter Blum) Heidelberg 1994, p. 171.
- Jörg Schadt: Service to the Republic. The activity reports of the regional executive committee of the Social Democratic Party of Baden 1914–1932 , ed. u. edit by Jörg Schadt. Stuttgart [u. a.] 1977. (Publications of the Mannheim City Archives, 4) [78 B 820]
Web links
- Kilger in the chronicle of the city of Heidelberg (1913)
- Kilger in the city book of Heidelberg (1929)
- Kilger in the personnel directory of the University of Heidelberg (1930)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Kilger's application for reparation dated March 8, 1948 and May 16, 1949 in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kilger, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German brewer, trade unionist and social democrat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederwinkling , Lower Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1965 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |