Hermann Schlechter

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Hermann Schlechter (born August 31, 1891 in Dürrheim , † November 27, 1983 in Wetzlar ) was a German electrical engineer and politician . After the Second World War he rebuilt the power supply in the Lahn-Dill region and after 1945 was one of the founding fathers of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Central Hesse.

Training and First World War

Hermann Schlechter, son of the secret finance council of the same name, attended high school in Karlsruhe . From 1910 he studied electrical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe , interrupted by the winter semester 1912/13 at the TH Munich . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Germania fraternity (now Teutonia ) in 1910/11 . On August 24, 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , he passed his examination as a graduate engineer .

Schlechter took part in the First World War as a volunteer and served as a radio operator . In 1917, after serious illnesses from dysentery and malaria , he was no longer deployed at the front, but at an FT monitoring station in Karlsruhe. In 1918 he was released as a lieutenant in the reserve .

Professional background

After the end of the World War, Schlechter worked for a short time from 1919 to 1923 at various companies in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Cologne . In 1923 he went to the Gustav Fleischhauer machine factory in Magdeburg .

In 1926 Schlechter moved to Wetzlar as a senior engineer at the overland headquarters of the Buderus'schen Eisenwerke , where he was responsible for maintaining the high- voltage network for Wetzlar and the surrounding area. In 1928, after being taken over by the Preussische Elektrizitäts-AG , his sphere of activity expanded to include the entire Lahn-Dill region . In 1935 he was promoted to director and was very committed to the energy supply during and after the war until his retirement in 1956. He was a member of the advisory board of Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland .

National Socialism

Worse came in May 1933, the NSDAP (Ref. 2369824) with November 1934, because of its boxes belonging excluded again. The exclusion was lifted again in November 1938.

Schlechter was entrusted with air protection in the companies in the Lahn-Dill area. After the war, from March to September 1945, he rebuilt the power supply there under the supervision of the Americans . He was then released and his property confiscated. Until March 1948 he was employed as a laborer (armature winder). After denazification (classification as a fellow traveler) he returned to his old position.

politics

At the end of 1945, after the end of the war, Schlechter co-founded the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Wetzlar, which ran for the first time in the 1949 federal election under the name of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1952 to 1972 he was a member of the Wetzlar district council , and from 1955 to 1968 of the Wetzlar city council. He was mainly a member of the finance committee, at times in the council of elders and in the committee for legal and constitutional matters, deputy district chairman, and at the end of his membership in the city council, FDP parliamentary group chairman.

Awards

After the First World War Schlechter received the Iron Cross II. Class, the Silver Medal of Merit of the Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit and the Cross of Honor for front-line soldiers .

After the Second World War, Schlechter received the War Merit Cross, Second Class, and the Air Defense Medal .

In 1972 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 242-243.
  • Helmut Will: The Wetzlar FDP lost one of its founders: the long-time MP Hermann Schlechter has died , Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, December 1, 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department General State Archives, Finding aid 456 E: Personnel files, 456 E No. 10862
  2. ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on June 6, 1972 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 26 , p. 1129 , item 789 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Worse, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and local politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dürrheim
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1983
Place of death Wetzlar