Oskar Hünlich

Oskar Hünlich

Oskar Hünlich (born November 28, 1887 in Neugersdorf ; † February 2, 1963 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Live and act

Hünlich was born in 1887 as the son of an iron turner. He attended elementary school in Neugersdorf from 1894 to 1902 . He then learned the typesetter's trade and attended an advanced training school. In the following years he practiced his profession one after the other in Humburg , Bozen , Fraustadt , Bad Harzburg , Grünberg and Darmstadt . In 1911 he became editor of the Norddeutsche Volksblatt . From 1914 to 1920 Hünlich was a member, since 1919 also chairman of the city council, the school board and other committees in Rüstingen. On August 1, 1919, he became district party secretary of the SPD for Oldenburg-Ostfriesland. Paul Hug was his sponsor.

From 1920 to 1933 Hünlich was a member of his party for constituency 16 (Weser-Ems) in the Reichstag . The main focus of his parliamentary work was the participation in the transport committee, in which he advocated the construction of the coastal canal , and defense policy. As early as 1919/1920, he campaigned for a positive relationship between social democracy and the newly formed Reichswehr . By exerting influence from the Social Democrats, he hoped to be able to prevent the restorative development that was being announced in the army. Because of his generally positive attitude towards the Reichswehr, he repeatedly came into conflict with parts of his party, but was repeatedly able to assert himself in the list of candidates.

He was a member of the last Reichstag elected on March 5, 1933, and was the only parliamentarian from the Free State of Oldenburg who voted against the Enabling Act on March 24, 1933 . After occupying the premises of the district office, the Paul Hug publishing house and the editorial staff of the Volksblatt , Hünlich fled to the German-speaking border area of ​​Czechoslovakia in early May 1933. After consulting with the party executive who had also emigrated, he was involved in illegal border work and continued to maintain contact with officials in his former constituency. After the military occupation of the Sudetenland , he fled to Denmark via Prague and from there to Sweden in 1940 . Here he worked in his old profession in Norrköping and later in Stockholm . As early as 1939, Hünlich, a supporter of Kurt Heinig's group , was expatriated in Germany and became stateless . In Sweden he, like Paul Neue (1876–1969), with whom he was still on friendly terms, was in almost constant dispute with the international group of democratic socialists , which, with the significant contribution of Willy Brandt , wanted to bring together all socialist emigration groups, which Hünlich strictly wanted refused. In October 1946 he returned to Wilhelmshaven and devoted himself to the rebuilding of the Paul Hug & Co. publishing house . In 1947 the British military government gave him permission to publish the social-democratic Nordwestdeutsche Rundschau published in Wilhelmshaven . He was one of the newspaper's three licensees and was also its editor-in-chief until 1954 . After leaving the editorial team in 1954, Hünlich withdrew into private life.

Private

Since 1910 he was born with Martha. Radelski married, the marriage remained childless.

Fonts

• A large printing company is celebrating its seventy-fifth birthday. A brief history of the large printing company and the Paul Hug & Co. publishing house in Wilhelmshaven 1888 - 1963 , Wilhelmshaven 1963.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 337-338 ( PDF; 4.6 MB ).

Web links

• Oskar Hünlich in the database of members of the Reichstag