Kurt Weidner (politician)

Kurt Weidner (born June 2, 1889 in Goldberg in Silesia ; † March 15, 1954 ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( DDP , later FDP ).

Life

After completing secondary school, Weidner completed a commercial apprenticeship in Breslau . He took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1916 and was finally taken prisoner by the French, from which he escaped in 1918 by fleeing. In 1924 he bought a brick factory in the district of Oels and in 1931 he founded a building materials wholesaler in Wroclaw. Until 1931 he was politically active for the DDP in Breslau, which he joined in 1920.

After the Second World War , Weidner was expelled from Silesia in December 1945. He moved to Bavaria as a displaced person and settled in Feldkirchen , where he again worked as a building materials wholesaler.

Weidner joined the FDP and was elected in the first state election in 1946 through the constituency of Lower Bavaria as a member of the Bavarian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1950. In the state parliament he was a member of the Economic Committee from 1946 to 1950, of the Committee for Submissions and Complaints from 1948 to 1950 and of the Committee for Borderland Issues and the Committee for Housing and Settlement Construction from 1949 to 1950. In the federal election in 1949 he ran for the German Bundestag , but missed the entry into parliament.

Web links

Kurt Weidner in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Kurt Weidner at the Bavarian State Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Weidner, Kurt . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Waas bis Wynands] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1337 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 393 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Weidner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneurs and politicians (DDP, FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goldberg in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1954

[1] Weidner, Kurt . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Waas bis Wynands] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1337 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 393 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).