Paul Wagner (politician, 1900)

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Paul Wagner (born November 24, 1900 in Münsterberg ( Silesia ), † January 12, 1983 ) was a German local politician and expellee functionary. He is considered the father of the day at home .

Life

Wagner was a city councilor in Allenstein and was temporarily appointed mayor of Neidenburg in Masuria in 1933 and was elected mayor for a twelve-year term a little later. He was married to Elisabeth Wagner and remained mayor of Neidenburg until 1945. After the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 , he was a. a. District supervisor of Neidenburg. On November 20, 1949, in Göttingen , he took part in the meeting of representatives of the "Central Association of Expellees " and the then "Association of East German Landsmannschaften" (both predecessor organizations of the Association of Expellees ), which resulted in the so-called " Göttingen Agreement ". It contained two main ideas, on the one hand the drafting of a charter for the German expellees , which was then proclaimed in Stuttgart on August 6, 1950 , and on the other hand the resolution to hold Homeland Day annually . Wagner initiated this resolution with the following proposal:

1. The expellees should publicly acknowledge their currently lost homeland once a year. They should bring them closer to their children and all Germans, especially the right to a homeland, which is inalienable and indispensable.
2. The expellees should enjoy their homeland property, show their homeland property publicly and pass it on to the children.
3. Homeland Day is intended to make the whole German people aware of the value of their homeland. At the same time, on this day, it should demand the right to a home in front of all the world. This is intended to promote the community of those who remained at home and those who have been displaced, and thus to fill in the divide between the two. This should help them grow closer together.

Wagner was also the initiator of the sponsorship (OB Fritz Heinemann ) of the Neidenburg district, which the city of Bochum took over on May 8, 1953 . In 1961 , in Hofstede-Riemke near Bochum, the “Neidenburger Siedlung”, which is unique in Germany, was built.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District representative of the Neidenburg district community - Paul Wagner. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: Heads of Home. District community Neidenburg, accessed on August 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Origin. Homeland Day. (PDF; 8.6 kB) Association of Expellees , Ulm District Association, accessed on August 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Carrier of the Prussian shield. Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen , accessed on August 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and functionary for expellees
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Münsterberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1983