Wilhelm Apel (politician, 1905)

Wilhelm Apel (born May 25, 1905 in Ellrich ; † August 4, 1969 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

Apel was the son of the SPD politician Wilhelm Apel . Between 1923 and 1933 he worked as an administrative officer. During the Nazi regime he worked as a construction technician in the Saar region and later in France.

politics

Wilhelm Apel was a functionary of the SPD and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in the Weimar Republic .

Since his return from exile in 1945, Wilhelm Apel had been a member of the SPD executive committee in Frankfurt and from 1946 full-time party secretary of the SPD. In 1947 he became a member of the board of directors of the South German State Council in Stuttgart and in 1948 he was appointed Hessian representative in the administration of the unified economic area in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1949 to 1963 he was the representative of the state of Hesse at the federal government and then went into voluntary retirement.

Wilhelm Apel was a member of the constituent state assembly of Greater Hesse, a member of the parliamentary council of the state council of the American zone and elected member of the first electoral term of the Hessian state parliament from December 1, 1946 to April 30, 1950.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 198 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 55.

Web links

• Apel, Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of February 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).