Wilhelm Engler (politician, 1873)

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Wilhelm Engler

Friedrich Wilhelm Engler (born May 3, 1873 in Weisweil ; † February 20, 1938 in Lorsbach ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Wilhelm Engler was born the son of a weaver and farmer. After attending elementary school in Weisweil, he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Kenzingen in 1888 , which he completed in 1891 with the journeyman's examination. After the years of traveling , he worked as a journeyman carpenter until 1906, with an interruption due to his military service, which he performed from 1894 to 1896. In addition to his professional activity, he was involved in trade unions and was chairman of the union cartel in Würzburg from 1897 to 1899 . From 1906 to 1908 he worked as a workers secretary in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the same time chairman of the local trade union cartel. From 1913 to 1921 he was managing director of the Freiburg milk supply. In addition, he was a member of the supervisory board of the Freiburger Konsumverein . In 1905 he joined the German Garden City Society and in 1913 initiated the establishment of the Freiburg building cooperative Gartenvorstadt, on whose board he was active.

Engler, who joined the SPD at the turn of the century, acted as party secretary for the SPD district of Oberbaden from July 1908 to 1913 and was a board member of the social democratic cooperative printing company in Freiburg. From 1908 to 1911 he was a city ​​councilor and from 1911 to 1921 city ​​councilor in Freiburg. During the November Revolution he became a member of the State Committee of Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils in Baden .

In the state elections in October 1921, he was elected to the state parliament of the Republic of Baden , to which he belonged until his resignation on March 27, 1928. Edith Trautwein succeeded him as a member of parliament .

From April 2, 1919 to August 4, 1920, Engler served as a State Councilor in the Geiß II cabinet and from February 4, 1921 to September 30, 1924 he held the office of Minister of Labor in the State Government of the Republic of Baden . During his tenure in the Lörrach area , the September riots broke out in 1923 , with Engler bearing joint responsibility for the escalation of events through his support for a police operation and the support of employers in moving away from a wage agreement.

Engler was considered a staunch revisionist within the social democratic party . From 1905 he supported the large bloc policy of the Baden SPD leadership and from 1914 also the truce policy and the approval of war credits. In 1918 he was still of the opinion: "Anyone who did something that weakened the army's clout and the people's will to win has sinned against the German people." He fought fiercely against the USPD , the Spartacus League and the KPD .

From 1924 to 1928 Engler was president of the trade supervisory office in Karlsruhe and from 1928 until his forced retirement in 1933 he was president of the state employment office in Hesse in Frankfurt am Main .

Honors

Fonts

  • The causes of unemployment and how to combat it , Frankfurt a. M. 1930

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the 62nd meeting on August 4, 1920
  2. ^ Minutes of the 18th session of the Landtag on February 4, 1921
  3. ↑ Law on the establishment of ministries of July 22, 1924 in: Badisches Gesetz- und Verordnungs-Blatt no.44 of July 31, 1924
  4. ↑ see Hug in the introduction to Engler's autobiography, p. 15
  5. ↑ Engler p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Engler, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engler, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), Minister of State, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Weisweil
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1938
Place of death Lorsbach