Hermann Wolters

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Hermann Wolters (born May 25, 1910 in Bremen , † October 24, 1974 in Bremen) was a Bremen politician (KPD / SPD) and senator .

biography

After completing secondary school, Wolters completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk. He then went to sea for a short time as a seaman. In 1929 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association and in 1930 of the KPD . He was Reich Youth Leader of the KPD for the group of seamen, dock workers and inland waterwaymen. At the beginning of 1933 - during the National Socialist era  - he fought against the NSDAP in Hamburg under the code name "Bruns" in the illegal group of the "Red Navy Storm" . He was arrested and convicted of " high treason ". It was not until 1943 (other source: 1939) that he was released from prison and the concentration camp; he then worked at Borgward until 1944 . In 1944 - after being arrested again and escaping - he stayed illegally in Bremen until the end of the Second World War . Before the end of the war he founded a fighting group against fascism (KGF), on whose board he was active.

At the end of April 1945, he and Adolf Ehlers made contact with the American military government. In May 1945 he was a co-founder of the KPD in Bremen. On June 6, 1945, while still a member of the KPD, the military government appointed him Senator for Food and Labor. On April 23, 1946, in a speech in front of the Volkshaus, he called for the reconstruction of the city of Bremen. As a reaction to the development in the Soviet zone of occupation and in particular to the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD , he and Adolf Ehlers joined the SPD on May 16, 1946 with the reason:

“Democracy is trampled underfoot in the KPD and independent thinking communists are imposed on silence because they are trying to advocate a policy within the party that, in their honest opinion, corresponds to the interests of the German workers. [...] The KPD has a policy of mechanically transferring political directives that are incompatible with the principles of an independent socialist policy. "

In 1946, under the leadership of Wilhelm Kaisen, he became Senator for Food and Labor, then for Ports, Shipping, Economy and Labor, from 1948 Senator for Economy and Labor and from 1949 to 1951 Senator for Food and Agriculture. Again from 1951 to 1958 he was Senator for Economics. His successor was Senator Karl Eggers (SPD).

Wolters resigned as senator because he was involved in a fight, probably in a red light district in Bonn, under circumstances that were not clarified later.

From January 1959 he was the authorized representative of the Bremen timber merchant Hermann Krages and headed the self-employed working group in the SPD .

family

Hermann Wolters was married to the actress Helene Tabery. His daughter Ursula is the longtime partner and wife of film director Dieter Wedel .

Honors

In Bremen- Strom the Senator-Wolters-Strasse was named after him.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from a letter from Willy Brandt dated June 10, 1946 in Brandt documents in the archives of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel of October 22, 1958, Wolters attack: Ein Bremer am Rhein
  3. ↑ Professional Hermann Wolters Der SPIEGEL 5/1959 of January 28, 1959
  4. ↑ Milk War. Until the last Hansbur Der SPIEGEL 32/1951 on August 8, 1951
  5. ↑ On appearances and real life. Dieter Wedel, Lübbe-Verlag, Cologne (2010), page 80.
  6. ↑ After allegations of rape: Now the secret wife of the director focus.de speaks from January 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wolters, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1974
Place of death Bremen