Hugo Kielgast

Hugo Kielgast (born December 1, 1909 in Düsseldorf , † November 4, 2006 in Nuremberg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Hugo Kielgast was the son of a glass blower who went to Berlin with the family in 1911 . He attended elementary school and did a commercial apprenticeship. In 1926 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and in 1928 the SPD. Kielgast was hired in 1929 as a businessman at the SPD headquarters in Lindenstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Two years later he attended the social pedagogical seminar at the German University of Politics to become a youth welfare worker . He then worked for the family welfare in the district office Lichtenberg . With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Kielgast was dismissed for political reasons. During the Second World War , Kielgast was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 .

After the war, Kielgast was initially hired by the French occupying forces in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg in 1945 , but returned to Berlin in spring 1946 and worked in his previous position in the Lichtenberg district office. A little later he moved to the Berlin magistrate , among other things he was the representative of the main youth welfare office in order to organize the repatriation of Berlin children from the deportation to Kinderland . In the first Berlin election in 1946 , Kielgast was elected to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin and at the same time also to the district council in the Wedding district. In 1951 he married and became managing director of the German employees' union (DAG) in Fulda , from 1954 in the same function in Nuremberg. In 1956, Kielgast became the managing director of the “Working Group of Non-Profit Housing Companies” (Argewo) until he retired in 1975 for reasons of age.

In his retirement, Kielgast was a long-time functionary of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) in his place of residence Feucht and from 1990 to 1995 chairman of the working group of formerly persecuted social democrats (AvS) in the Franconian district .

The then Federal President Roman Herzog awarded Kielgast the Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996 .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 142 (331 pages).

Web links

• Festschrift 125 years of the SPD in Feucht, 2002 (PDF) , author: Hannes Schönfelder , We can build on loyal members: Hugo Kielgast , pp. 31–34.