Wilhelm Falk (politician)

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Wilhelm ("Will") Falk (born October 9, 1909 in Berlin-Tegel , † September 26, 1970 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a German liberal politician ( LDP / FDP ). He was chairman of the LDP regional association Brandenburg .

Life

Falk became a member of the LDP after 1945. He was youth officer for the LDP party leadership in Berlin . In June 1946 he succeeded the deposed Albert Grundei and became acting chairman of the LDP regional association Brandenburg. From June 1946 he was a member of the Advisory Assembly of Brandenburg and there second deputy chairman. From July 1946 he was also a member of the LDP central board. Falk did not get involved in the work in the Democratic Bloc , until early November 1946 he did not take part in any meeting of the provincial block committee . He turned against the land reform in election speeches in Angermünde and in Brandenburg an der Havel at the end of Augustand against the fact that simple people from the people had been appointed mayors . Above all, however, he made insulting statements against the SED and incurred their anger. Falk ran as the top candidate for the state elections on October 20, 1946 in Brandenburg. However, under pressure from the SED, he was removed from the list. The SED had accused him of being a former Nazi propaganda speaker. A little later, Falk moved to the British zone of occupation and in 1947/1948 was chief executive of the FDP association for the British zone of occupation. During a visit to Potsdam he was arrested on November 11, 1948 and sentenced by the Soviet military tribunal on February 16, 1949 to ten years in a labor camp for "anti-Soviet agitation" . In 1956 he was released from prison. Falk then fled to Berlin (West) , where he worked in adult education and was active in the FDP.

literature

  • Karsten Schröder: The FDP in the British zone of occupation 1946–1948 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-7700-5128-9 , p. 88.
  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 362, 564f. and 896.
  • Dieter Pohl: Justice in Brandenburg 1945–1955. Synchronization and adaptation . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56532-X , p. 86.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 926.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives of Liberalism, Gummersbach, holdings FDP-Ostbüro A45-51 and -1964.
  2. ^ Fritz Reinert: Brandenburgs parties 1945–1950. Possibilities and limits of cooperative politics . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 1995, p. 102.
  3. ↑ Kurt Adamy, Kristina Hübener (ed.): History of the Brandenburg Landtag. From the beginning in 1823 to the present day . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1998, p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Falk, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falk, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDP / FDP), LDP chairman in Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1970
Place of death Berlin