Karl Wiechert
Karl Wiechert (born January 2, 1899 in Hanover ; † January 16, 1971 ibid) was a German politician ( SPD ), journalist and chief city director of Hanover .
Life
Karl Wiechert attended secondary school, the municipal higher commercial school in Hanover and the Leibniz Academy and began a commercial apprenticeship.
After fighting as a soldier in World War I , he became a member of the SPD in 1919. From 1919 to 1930 he worked in the export trade with India, ten years of which he was an authorized signatory in a purchasing company. From 1929 to 1933 he was mayor in Hanover. He gained his first journalistic experience as a freelance journalist from 1930 onwards with Volkswillen , a left-wing Hanoverian newspaper. As a social democrat he was persecuted by the National Socialists.
From 1936 he worked as an advertising consultant. In 1943 he was "conscripted" to work in a metal goods factory. After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 , he spent several weeks in Neuengamme concentration camp .
After the capitulation of Germany he was first local editor at the Neue Hannoversche Kurier and from 1946 local manager and finally deputy editor-in-chief of the Hannoversche Presse . In 1945 he became a council member and from 1946 to 1949 spokesman and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1949 he succeeded Gustav Bratke as senior city director . He held this office until 1963, when he resigned in favor of a state parliament mandate. Martin Neuffer was his successor . He was represented in the state parliament until 1970.
Wiechert participated in all communal areas, in the city council and in supervisory boards, for the trade fair, in the administrative board of the Landesbank, in adult education, in the German Red Cross and in cultural associations. His political achievements as City Director include the opening of Hannover-Langenhagen Airport , the inauguration of the Lower Saxony Stadium , the construction of the Oststadt Hospital , the founding of the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and the expansion of the Herrenhausen power station. He also campaigned for the promotion of the city library , museums and the fine arts.
Wiechert was married and had three children.
Honors
For his political activities he received several awards, including
- 1963 the Great Federal Cross of Merit
- the city plaque .
- The main road in Karl-Wiechert-Allee passing the MHH in Hanover was named in his honor.
literature
- Barbara Simon : Wiechert, Karl , in this: MPs in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical Handbook , ed. by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 406
- Klaus Mlynek, in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 387f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek : Wiechert, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 387f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiechert, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, journalist and senior city director of Hanover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th January 1971 |
| Place of death | Hanover |