Wilhelm Deist (politician)
Wilhelm Deist (born August 28, 1898 in Holzwickede , † March 5, 1953 in Bockum-Hövel ) was a German district administrator and member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Life
After completing elementary school, Deist attended the mountain pre-school in Hamm and the mountain school in Bochum. He also completed economics courses in Königswinter . From 1912 to 1914 he trained as an electrician and then from 1914 to 1917 an internship at the Radbod colliery in underground operation. During the First World War he was a soldier on the Eastern and Western Fronts. From 1921 to 1932 he worked again in underground mining at the Radbod colliery. From 1924 to 1928 he was an elder and member of the board of the Ruhrknappschaft. In this function Deist was the youngest miners' eldest in the German Reich. In addition, he held the office of labor judge at the Hamm Labor Court from 1929 to 1933. From August 1924 to 1933 Deist was chairman of the Christian miners' union. Between 1928 and 1932 he was a member of the works committee of the Radbod colliery.
Political development
From 1928 he was party chairman of the center in Bockum-Hövel , from 1929 to 1933 at the same time a member of the Lüdinghausen district committee . Deist was also active in the Catholic working class movement, in which he was active as a workers secretary in Bockum-Hövel from 1932 to 1939 . At the Second World War Deist participated as a soldier. In 1945 he was imprisoned in Sixdorf and wrote the pamphlet The sick Germany in the heart of Europe . During the war, women and children had to endure harassment by the Gestapo again and again, as Deist was not a member of the NSDAP.
After the Second World War he was again the workers 'secretary of the KAB and participated in the development of the Catholic workers' movement in Hamm, Beckum, as well as in Lüdinghausen, Soest and Arnsberg. He also held numerous offices and functions in the CDU - from September 1945 founder and local chairman of the CDU - at that time CDP - in Bockum-Hövel, from January 1946 district party chairman of the CDU, district of Lüdinghausen. Since 1946 he belonged to the district council of Lüdinghausen, was a member of the Westphalian provincial council in 1946 , in 1948/49 in the provincial committee and finally from 1950 to 1953 a member of the advisory committee for the Westphalian provincial administration in Münster (today Regional Assembly Westphalia-Lippe ). From May 10, 1946, until his sudden death, he was district administrator of the Lüdinghausen district . From December 19, 1946 to March 5, 1953 he was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia , in the 2nd term of office, elected in the 1st and 2nd electoral term in constituency 86 (Lüdinghausen).
In honor of the deceased district administrator, a path in Bockum-Hövel was named after him on March 5, 2013.
literature
- Gisela Schwarze: A region undergoing democratic development: the Münster administrative district in 1945/46. Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984; 1st edition, ISBN 3590181230
- District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): District administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1991. Düsseldorf 1992, p. 304.
- Anneliese Beeck: This is how the new Hamm was created: End of the war and reconstruction. Griebsch, Hamm 1992, ISBN 3-924966-03-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ wa.de of March 5, 2013. Landrat-Wilhelm-Deist-Weg opened , accessed on July 2, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deist, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center, CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzwickede |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1953 |
| Place of death | Bockum-Hövel |