Wilhelm Giessenfeld

Wilhelm Adolph Robert Güssefeld (born April 8, 1886 in Schönberg , † July 23, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Wilhelm Güssefeld studied law in Jena and Berlin and completed them with the Grand State Examination . During his studies in 1905 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . In 1914 he volunteered for the First World War . He then worked as a district judge in the province of Poznan and later as a lawyer in Berlin. He was also the managing director of the Central Association of the German Banking and Banking Industry. From 1921 to 1953 he was a member of the board of directors of the Hypothekenbank in Hamburg . From 1952 to 1960 he was also a member of the plenary session of the Chamber of Commerce and from 1955 managing director of ZEIT-Verlag .

politics

Güssefeld joined the newly founded CDP in 1945 and sat on the commission for the appointment of civil servants from 1946 to 1953 and in 1947 became a member of the construction deputation and the appraisal commission for expropriation matters. In 1950 he was co-founder and deputy chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Hamburg's Economic Life.

In 1953 he became a member of the Hamburg Parliament in the third electoral term . At the end of the fourth electoral term , he left again. From 1955 to 1957 he was chairman of the Hamburg block faction and from 1957 to 1961 first vice-president of the citizenship.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 400-401.
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : From the “working group” to the big party. 40 years of the Christian Democratic Union in Hamburg (1945-1985). Published by the State Political Society, Hamburg 1986, p. 260.