Helmut Hillebrecht

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Helmut Hillebrecht (born July 7, 1912 in Berlin ; † unknown) was a German trade unionist and local politician . He was chairman of the works council and a member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen plants, a member of the German Conservative Party - German Right Party (DKP-DRP) and a founding member of the Socialist Reich Party (SRP), which was later classified as anti-constitutional and banned by the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

Hillebrecht was a trained car mechanic. He last served in the Second World War in the rank of major of the paratrooper troops and was awarded the Knight's Cross .

Political activity

German Conservative Party - German Right Party (DKP-DRP)

Helmut Hillebrecht was a member of the German right-wing party DRP in Lower Saxony. He was district chairman of the DRP in Wolfsburg and came in at number 11 out of 21 on the Lower Saxony state list in the 1949 federal election and ran for constituency 28. Shortly before the establishment of the Socialist Reich Party, he resigned from the party.

Socialist Reich Party (SRP)

Helmut Hillebrecht was one of the founding members of the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) and when it was founded on October 2, 1949, he was elected to the SRP board of directors alongside chairman Fritz Dorls , Wolfgang Falck , Otto Ernst Remer , Bernhard Gericke and Gerhard Heinze, and Otto was one of its leading groups Ernst Remer also included the party founder Wolf Graf von Westarp , while Gerhard Krüger was appointed managing director.

In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1951 , he ran as an SRP member for the state parliament .

National Workers Party (NAP)

Hillebrecht resigned from the SRP on May 6, 1951 after Gerhard Krüger left the SRP in October 1950 and joined the National Workers' Party NAP, which was newly founded by Krüger .

Councilor in Wolfsburg

It is known that he was councilor in Wolfsburg in the post-war period .

Activity as employee representative

Hillebrecht had been a member of IG Metall since 1948 , and later also of the German Employees' Union (DAG). Union members were “exotic” in the workforce at this point. Heinrich Nordhoff, in his function as general director, viewed trade union demands as interference in the internal affairs of a company group. He justified his union involvement with the statement: "I do not fully agree with the union practices, but still go in to work from within."

Chairman of the works council of the Volkswagen factory

Hillebrecht was elected deputy works council chairman of the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg in November 1949.

After Otto Peter, who had embezzled funds, was deposed as chairman of the works council, right-wing members of the works council won more and more votes from the shaken workforce. In 1950 and 1951, Hillebrecht received the most votes in the election to the works council. However, he was never elected chairman of the works council, and in May 1951, despite the high proportion of votes in the plant, he was no longer elected the second works council chairman.

Supervisory board as employee representative of the Volkswagen plant

Since Hillebrecht early managed to jump from the SRP, was an operation as an employee representative for the prohibition of SRP politically nothing in the way, especially since his new political home - the National Workers Party NAP - existed until 1957 before the FDP merged .

Hillebrecht was appointed to the Supervisory Board as an employee representative of the Volkswagen factory in 1951 at the latest and retained this position until at least 1955.

From a privatization proposal for Volkswagen drawn up in 1958, Hillebrecht was a member of the supervisory board at this point in time. According to Manfred Jenke's report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945, conspiracy from the right? Hillebrecht held a leading position in the VW branch in Hanover around 1961 .

literature

  • Richard Stöss: Socialist Reich Party. In: Party Handbook: The Parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980. Special edition. Volume 4, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 2274ff.
  • Otto Büsch: First study: history and shape of the SRP. In: Otto Büsch, Peter Furth: Right-wing radicalism in post-war Germany. Studies on the Socialist Reich Party (SRP). Verlag Franz Vahlen, Berlin 1957. (Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne / Opladen 1967, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1967, ISBN 3-663-19614-3 )
  • Markus Lupa: Changing lanes on British orders. The transformation of the Volkswagen factory into a market company 1945–1949. (= Historical Notate. Issue 15). 2010, ISBN 978-3-935112-41-3 , p. 74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Representation of the People 1946–1972 , Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , p. 498.
  2. ↑ Monika Uliczka: Professional biography and refugee fate. VW workers in the post-war period. Hahn, 1993, ISBN 3-7752-5884-1 , p. 262.
  3. ^ Otto Büsch: First Study: History and Shape of the SRP. 1967, p. 21.
  4. ^ Otto Büsch: First Study: History and Shape of the SRP. 1967, p. 20 f.
  5. ↑ a b c Rainer Nicolaysen : The long way to the Volkswagen Foundation . A founding story in the field of tension between politics, business and science. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-86518-X , p. 45.
  6. ^ Henning Hansen: The Socialist Reich Party (SRP). Rise and failure of a right-wing extremist party. Droste, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5280-6 , p. 100.
  7. ^ The Wolfsburg town hall. For the inauguration on March 22, 1958. Wolfsburg city administration, 1958.
  8. ↑ a b Ownership of the Volkswagenwerk GmbH. Privatization, state enterprise or foundation? (A proposal by the DAG). German Employees' Union, 1958, p. 6.
  9. ↑ Where are the unionists? In: A look back at the past 65 years. Festschrift 65 years of IGM. The years 1946–1950. Special publication of the Aller-Zeitung / Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of June 25, 2011, p. 3.
  10. ↑ Porsche von Fallersleben. History of an automobile. In: Der Spiegel . 22/1950, June 1, 1950, p. 71 ff.
  11. ^ Otto Büsch: First Study: History and Shape of the SRP. 1967, p. 22.
  12. ^ Markus Lupa: Change of lane on British orders. The transformation of the Volkswagen factory into a market company 1945–1949. (= Historical Notate. Issue 15). 2010, p. 74. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
  13. ↑ Ralf Richter, Hedwig Richter : The "guest worker world". Life between Palermo and Wolfsburg. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012, ISBN 978-3-657-77373-2 , p. 231.
  14. ↑ Volkswagen Werk GmbH Wolfsburg: Report of the management for the business year 1951, 1952, 1953. P. 3, accessed October 25, 2017.
  15. ↑ Volkswagen Werk GmbH Wolfsburg: Management Report for the 1954 financial year, p. 3, accessed October 25, 2017.
  16. ↑ Volkswagen Werk GmbH Wolfsburg: Management Report for the 1955 financial year.p. 5, accessed October 25, 2017.
  17. ↑ Manfred Jenke : Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945. Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1961, p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Hillebrecht, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German employee representatives and politicians (DKP-DRP, SRP and NAP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century