Wilhelm Arnoul

Grave of Wilhelm Arnoul in the old cemetery in Neu-Isenburg

Wilhelm Arnoul (born September 19, 1893 in Neu-Isenburg ; † March 27, 1964 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German politician ( SPD ), district president in Darmstadt and a member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse and the Hessian state parliament .

Life

Arnoul was the son of the innkeeper and gürtler Konrad Arnoul (* December 18, 1852 - January 22, 1908) and his wife Eva nee Sattler (* July 1, 1856 - February 18, 1935). The parents had a " mixed marriage ": the father was French Reformed, the mother Catholic. Wilhelm Arnoul was a Protestant. He married Anna Barbara, nee Gissel, divorced Freihöfer (born October 7, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main; † July 21, 1966).

Wilhelm Arnoul attended elementary school and high school and declared his profession as a merchant and manufacturer.

After school Arnoul worked as a businessman and SPD functionary. From 1919 to 1924 Arnoul was a city councilor, from 1924 to 1933 mayor of Neu-Isenburg. At the same time he was a member of the district council and the district committee.

In the last free elections in the Weimar Republic , he was elected to the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse in the 6th electoral period . He (like the other SPD MPs) lost the mandate he had acquired on March 11, 1933, immediately after the constituent meeting with effect from April 3, 1933 by means of a Nazi government decree.

During the " Third Reich " Arnoul had to emigrate to France . Wilhelm Arnoul was arrested on March 6, 1933 and removed from his office as mayor on March 15, 1933. As a result, he fled to France. In 1943 he returned to Germany under a false name, but was arrested anyway, but then released. He lived near Stuttgart until the end of the war .

After the war , from June 1945 he was again (appointed) mayor of his hometown for a short time and from 1946 to 1950 elected district administrator in the Offenbach district . Between 1950 and 1961 he was district president in Darmstadt .

From March 10, 1947 to September 30, 1947 he was a member of the Parliamentary Council of the State Council of the American Occupation Area . As a member of the elected state assembly of Greater Hesse to advise the constitution from July 15, 1947 to November 30, 1947, he was involved in drawing up the constitution of the state of Hesse .

From December 1, 1946 to November 30, 1950 and again from December 1, 1954 to March 27, 1964, he was a member of the Hessian state parliament.

Honors

Wilhelm Arnoul is an honorary citizen of Neu-Isenburg.

The following are named after Wilhelm Arnoul:

• The Wilhelm-Arnoul-Schule (elementary school) in Mörfelden-Walldorf
• The Wilhelm Arnoul Foundation

family

Wilhelm Arnoul's family had lived in Neu-Isenburg since 1702. His ancestor Pierre Arnouls came to Neu-Isenburg in 1702 as a Waldensian refugee. The family provided the mayor of Neu-Isenburg several times. Wilhelm Arnoul was the son of the innkeeper Konrad Arnoul and his wife Eva nee Sattler. He was married to Anna Barbara, born Gissel (1895–1966) and of Protestant denomination. His brother Ludwig Arnoul (1896–1975) was also an SPD politician, mayor and honorary citizen of Neu-Isenburg and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit .

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. 201 ( 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. 57.
• Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 362.
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , pp. 55–56.
• Biography of Wilhelm Arnoul . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 128.
• Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Schüren, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 24.

Web links

• Arnoul, Wilhelm. Hessian biography (as of May 31, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 23, 2018 . 
• Wilhelm Arnoul on the side of the SPD local association