Wilhelm Behrens (politician)

Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Behrens (born April 29, 1885 in Nienstädt , † February 18, 1958 in Müsingen ) was a German politician ( USPD , SPD ).

Life

Wilhelm Behrens was born the son of a miner. After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship as a glassblower and then worked as a glassmaker in Stadthagen .

Behrens was initially a member of the SPD, but left the party in 1917 due to the truce policy . After the November Revolution of 1918, he was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Stadthagen . From November 1918 to January 1919 he was a member of the state assembly of Schaumburg-Lippe, and in 1919 he was elected to the state parliament of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe . From 1922 he was again a member of the SPD. In protest against political developments, he resigned his state parliament mandate in 1933 together with the Social Democratic MPs Wilhelm Kuhlmann , Heinrich Ohlhorst and Franz Reuther .

From the 1930s he worked as an innkeeper in Meinefeld and Müsingen.

Wilhelm Behrens had been married since 1906.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 39.

Web links

• Biography of Wilhelm Behrens . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)