Jakob Weimer

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Jakob Weimer (born May 25, 1887 in Validstein ; † November 21, 1944 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician (SPD).

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After attending elementary school from 1893 to 1901, Weimer learned the locksmith's trade by 1904. In the first decade of the 20th century he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He also became a member of the trade union, in which he took on changing functions as a functionary over time, especially from 1920. Weimer probably took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 .

In 1921 Weimer was elected District Secretary of the General German Trade Union Confederation for Württemberg, Hohenzollern, Baden and Palatinate (southwest) in Stuttgart. From 1927 (when he succeeded Emilie Hiller , who had taken over the district list mandate from the late August Hornung ) to 1933, Weimer sat as a member of the SPD in the state parliament of Württemberg . With the Reichstag election of March 1933 , Weimer was elected as the SPD candidate for constituency 31 (Württemberg) in the last Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . He was a member of the German parliament for only three months, until June of the same year, before his mandate was revoked at the instigation of the Reich government. The most important parliamentary event in which Weimer was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act in March 1933: He was one of 94 members who voted against the adoption of this law, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship and that was approved by 444 votes to 94.

Weimer was arrested for the first time in May 1933, two months after the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”. After his release, he worked as an insurance clerk.

In the summer of 1944, Weimer was arrested by the Gestapo as a suspected co-conspirator of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt . For health reasons he was first admitted to the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, where doctors certified that he was incapable of transport for months. In November 1944, shortly after the chief physician of the hospital had finally granted us transportability under increasing pressure, he died in the basement of the hospital as a result of brutal interrogations by the Gestapo.

Weimer's estate documents are now kept in the Ludwigsburg State Archives under the shelfmarks EL 902/20 Bü 81131, EL 350 Bü 4449 and F 201 Bü 598.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 996 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Reichstag handbook states that Weimer exercised his profession after completing his training, "with the exception of wartime".
  2. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 360, 996 .
  3. ^ Kurt Leipner: Chronik der Stadt Stuttgart, 1933-1945 , 1982, p. 1009.
personal data
SURNAME Weimer, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Valid stone
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1944
Place of death Stuttgart