Wilhelm Bärwinkel

Max Wilhelm Bärwinkel (born July 5, 1880 in Arnstadt , † November 18, 1969 in Jena ) was a social democratic politician.

family

Wilhelm Bärwinkel was the son of the master baker Andreas Wilhelm Bärwinkel and his wife Beate Friederike Louise Nöckel. Wilhelm Bärwinkel, who was initially Protestant and later left the church, married Johanne Auguste Pröschold (born January 25, 1883 Georgenthal ; † unknown), the daughter of the master Bernhard Hermann Pröschold , on April 16, 1905 in Georgenthal .

Life

Wilhelm Bärwinkel attended elementary school in Arnstadt from 1886 to 1894 and trained as a furrier at the Bachmann company in Arnstadt from 1894 to 1898. From 1898 to 1900 he was a furrier's assistant on wandering before he did his military service with the 71st Infantry Regiment from October 1, 1900 to September 30, 1901. From October 1900 to June 30, 1908 he worked as a furrier assistant at the Bachmann company in Arnstadt.

From July 1, 1908, he was a workers' secretary at the union cartel in Arnstadt. From 1914 to 1918 he participated in the war, including two years as a militant at the front. He then returned to his position as workers secretary until April 1919.

Between February 1, 1921 and April 30, 1924 he was Ministerialdirektor in the Thuringian Ministry of Economics. From December 1, 1926, he was head of labor and welfare issues at the “Obere Saale” stock corporation during the construction of the Saale dams , before becoming director of the Suhl employment office on October 1, 1928. With the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was the "in accordance with 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service released". He was unemployed until November 1934 and between November 19, 1934 and July 1, 1945 he worked as a payroll clerk at Dyckerhoff and Widmann in Jena.

politics

In 1905 he joined the SPD. Between 1917 and 1922 he was a member of the USPD . In 1922 he was again a member of the SPD after the unification party congress of the SPD and USPD. From the mid-1890s he was one of the leading SPD representatives in the Arnstadt area. In 1914 he became a member of the SPD state committee in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

From 1903 he was a union member in the furrier association. Between 1906 and 1913 he was chairman of the union cartel in Arnstadt, and from 1918 chairman of the main board of the furriers' association. From 1910 to 1914 he was a member of the municipal council in Arnstadt.

After the November Revolution, Bärwinkel became a member of the Arnstadt Workers 'and Soldiers' Council on November 9, 1918, of which he was a member until it was dissolved in 1919.

From September 16, 1912 to 1919, he was a member of the Schwarzburg-Sondershäuser Landtag . He was also a member of the first Landtag of the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen elected after the November Revolution of 1919, or of the Sondershausen Regional Representation until its dissolution on February 10, 1921. From February 25 to April 1, 1919 he was President of the State Parliament. From June 20, 1920 to December 14, 1923 he was also a member of the Thuringian Parliament for the constituency of the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the Sondershausen area

In 1919 and 1928 he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag in constituencies 36 (Thuringia) and 12 (Thuringia).

As a non-official member of the Ministry of the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen from April 1, 1919 to December 16, 1919 and as a member of the Ministry (as a civil servant, responsible for interior affairs) or the Sondershausen regional government from December 16, 1919 to January 31 In 1921 he was a member of the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen government. From July 14, 1919 to November 12, 1920 he was also a member of the State Council of Thuringia as a representative of the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War, he was appointed District Administrator in Arnstadt on July 5, 1945 as the successor to the deposed Alfred Crimmann (at the suggestion of District President Dr. Hermann Louis Brill from early June 1945). As early as October 1, 1945, he was dismissed as a district administrator due to an order of the Soviet Military Administration Thuringia No. 957 for "sabotaging the measures of the military administration". The allegations were that the “ land reform ” in the Griesheim, Ichtershausen and Molsdorf domains had not followed the guidelines. From November 15, 1945 to December 31, 1948, he was government advisor for budgetary affairs at the State Office for Agriculture and Forestry in Weimar .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Landtag and regional representation of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1843–1923. Biographical handbook (= Parliaments in Thuringia 1809–1952. Vol. 3). G. Fischer, Jena et al. 1998, ISBN 3-437-35368-3 , pp. 144-145.