Helmut Weidt

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Helmut Weidt (born May 11, 1899 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician , resistance fighter against National Socialism and member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1946 to 1949.

Life and politics

Franz Weidt attended elementary school from 1906 to 1914 and began an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer , which he ended prematurely due to the First World War . He was a soldier from July 1, 1917 to December 21, 1918. After that he worked in pipeline construction and was a quay worker in the port from 1923. In 1927 he was elected to the works council and in 1933 dismissed as works inspector according to § 4 of the law for the restoration of the civil service .

He had been a member of the SPD since 1923. For his party he was district leader and also belonged to the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . During the time of National Socialism he continued to be politically committed to the illegal SPD in Rothenburgsort and on the Veddel with Walter Schmedemann , Fritz von Hacht , Franz Wendt and Herbert Dau and was a member of the illegal state executive committee of the SPD in Hamburg. Because of this activity he was for the SPD from November 17, 1934 to September 5. In 1936 in Fuhlsbüttel prison in Hamburg and then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until December 21, 1938 .

After his release, he worked as a machinist and stoker for the quay administration of the Hamburger Hafen- und Lagerhaus-Aktiengesellschaft until May 1945 . After the Second World War he sat for the SPD, which he had rejoined, from 1946 to 1949 ( 1st electoral period ) in the Hamburg parliament.

literature

  • Christel Oldenburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933-1945 . SPD-Hamburg, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0637-4 , p. 440.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Dau, own report in: Das Stadthaus in Hamburg - Center of Terror and Suppression 1933 to 1943, publisher: Initiative Gedenkort Stadthaus, Hamburg 2019, p. 81, ISBN 978-3-00-063221-1
  2. ^ The curriculum vitae of Franz Weidt, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Archive of Social Democracy
personal data
SURNAME Weidt, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidt, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century