Martin Wiegel

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Martin Wiegel (born October 24, 1898 in Halle (Saale) ; † May 8, 1949 ) was a German politician ( LDP ). In 1947/48 he was chairman of the LDP parliamentary group in the state parliament and 1948/49 minister in Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Wiegel attended the Stadtgymnasium Halle . During the First World War he had to do military service. After the war, he was a student trainee at the Alwine mine in Bruckdorf and completed an agricultural practice in an animal breeding company. He finished studying agriculture with a state examination as a qualified farmer . From 1923 he was an assistant in the animal breeding office in Sangerhausen , from 1928 head of this animal breeding office.

During the Nazi era , he was dismissed from his managerial position in 1938 because of “political unreliability”. In 1939 he was called up for military service and released again in 1941 because of his political views. In November 1941 he again took over the provisional administration of the Sangerhausen Animal Breeding Office.

After the Second World War he became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1945. He became second chairman of the LDP local group and city councilor in Sangerhausen as well as a member of the district council and second chairman of the LDP district association Sangerhausen . In October 1946 he was elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and was chairman of the LDP parliamentary group from September 1947 to June 1948. In March 1948 he also became a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone of Occupation . In the course of the expansion of the government decided by the state parliament, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Trade and Supply was split on June 28, 1948 and Wiegel was appointed Minister of Trade and Supply in the Hübener government.

Wiegel died at the age of 50. He had a fatal car accident on the way back from the state farmers' conference in Halle (Saale).

literature

  • Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . Mitteldeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Halle (Saale) 1947, p. 279.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The reshuffle of the government in Saxony-Anhalt . In: Neue Zeit , June 29, 1948, p. 1.
  2. ^ Minister had a fatal accident . In: Neue Zeit , May 10, 1949, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Wiegel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1949