Wilhelm Becker (politician)

Wilhelm Becker (born December 3, 1891 in Münster , † August 31, 1957 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and a member of the National Socialist Reichstag from 1933 to 1936 .

Wilhelm Becker

Life

Becker attended elementary school in Münster from 1900 to 1903 and then switched to the Falk Realgymnasium in Berlin, which he completed in 1908 with the secondary school leaving certificate. From April 1, 1908 to March 31, 1912 he worked in the General Secretariat of the Catholic Windhorst Order. During the First World War from 1914 to 1918 he was in the infantry regiment "von Lützow" (1st Rheinisches) No. 25 . In 1918 he was commissioned by the War Ministry to carry out the war-disabled welfare at the Kyffhäuserbund . Until 1919 he was in the helper service of the SPD and from 1918 to 1933 a member of the general association of German employee unions. From 1922 to 1928 he worked as managing director of a Cologne paper wholesaler. On August 7, 1925, he joined the NSDAP and became the first local group leader of the Cologne local group. Becker left the NSDAP a short time later. From 1928 to 1931 he was managing director and partner in a paper processing factory in Krefeld . After he had rejoined the NSDAP in 1929, he became district commissioner in Geldern in the same year . From 1931 he held this position for Krefeld-Kempen, where he was also district manager for a few months in 1932 .

politics

On January 1, 1933, he became a sales representative and partner in the “Wilh. Becker Bürobedarf ”in Krefeld. In November 1933 he also became a member of the German Reichstag and NSDAP district leader in Krefeld-Uerdingen. In the course of the reactions of the NSDAP to the Röhmputsch , he was given leave of absence on July 30, 1934. For a short time he was an honorary alderman for the city of Krefeld and on October 1, 1934, he became district manager for social policy at the district administration in Düsseldorf. He held this position until 1936. That year he was unsuccessfully proposed for the German Reichstag, from which he therefore resigned in March 1936. The Catholic resigned from the Church in May 1937. Around 1944/1945 he moved his company and his place of residence to Wuppertal . At the beginning of 1946 he was arrested while visiting Krefeld and then interned until March 12, 1947. In a denazification process , he was classified as a minor offender on June 18, 1948.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 26-27 .

Web links

• Wilhelm Becker in the database of members of the Reichstag