Oskar Wegener

Oskar Wegener (born November 18, 1877 in Breslau ; † May 29, 1962 in Eisenhüttenstadt ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ). He was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Wegener, the son of a saddler , attended elementary school in Breslau and completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason . He practiced the profession he had learned until 1909. In 1900 he became a member of the SPD. In 1907 he graduated from the central party school of the SPD in Berlin . Between 1909 and 1913 he worked as a workers secretary in Hildesheim and was a member of the board of the SPD constituency organization Hanover 10. In 1914, he became the managing director of the Society for the Inn and Trade Union House in Frankfurt (Oder). From 1914 to 1918 he did military service . In November 1918 he was elected chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Fürstenwalde and in December 1918 was a delegate of the First Council Congress in Berlin.

From 1914 to 1933 he was chairman of the SPD sub-district of Frankfurt (Oder) / Lebus . From 1919 to 1933 he was a city councilor in Frankfurt (Oder) and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. He was also a member of the Brandenburg SPD district committee from 1919 to 1933 . From 1931 he was a member of the provincial parliament and the provincial committee of Brandenburg and from 1932 to 1933 the Prussian state parliament . In 1926 he founded the Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft GmbH (Gewoba) in Frankfurt (Oder), which he was managing director until 1933.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Wegener was arrested in June 1933 and imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp . He was arrested again in 1935 and August 1944. After his arrest in 1944, he was taken to the Oderblick labor education camp near Schwetig , from which he was released again through intercession from the reserve hospital 101 Frankfurt (Oder), where he had been obliged to serve since 1939.

Wegener returned to Frankfurt (Oder) on May 20, 1945 and was entrusted by Lord Mayor Ernst Ruge , who had been deployed by the Red Army , with the establishment of District Mayor's Office I (Gertraudenplatz). In September 1945, Wegener took over the management of the city building department as a city councilor. From 1945 to April 1946 he was chairman of the SPD in Frankfurt (Oder). Wegener was a delegate of the unification party congress of the SPD and the KPD on 21/22. April 1946 in Berlin . There he was elected to the SED party executive committee, to which he belonged until September 1947. From 1948 to May 1949 he was a member of the People's Council .

The city ​​council of Frankfurt (Oder) elected him on October 30, 1946 - as Ruge's successor - as mayor. In connection with the hostility of the City Councilor for Economic Affairs Schlüter as well as the arrest of the managing director of Frankfurter Elektrizitätswerke (FEW) Karl-Heinz Boehmer - both of whom opposed the de facto nationalization of the municipal companies - Wegener resigned his office on December 31, 1948. After leaving the city council, Wegener lived as a veteran worker in Frankfurt for a few years and then moved to Eisenhüttenstadt, where he died.

honors and awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1957)
• A street in Frankfurt (Oder) bears his name.

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, pp. 1052f.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 982-983.
• Sabine Ross (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of the Reichsrätekongresse 1918/19 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, p. 243.
• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 394/395.
• Andreas Herbst :  Wegener, Oskar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Biography of Oskar Wegener . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Short biography on the website of the City Archives Frankfurt (Oder)