Wilhelm Gauger (politician)

Wilhelm Gauger (born November 26, 1872 in Beelitz ; † April 24, 1945 ) was a German farmer and politician ( DNVP , CNBL ).

Life

After attending elementary school and high school in Potsdam , Gauger worked as a farmer in Beelitz. The main part of his business, which he acquired in 1900, was asparagus cultivation and beekeeping. He was involved in the German Land Federation and was deputy chairman of the Land Federation in the province of Brandenburg from 1919 to 1933 .

During the Weimar Republic , Gauger joined the German National People's Party (DNVP), for which he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament in December 1924 and again in May 1928 . After leaving the DNVP, he was non-attached from August 9, 1930. He joined the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party (CNBL) and was a member of the German parliamentary group from October 14, 1930 until he left the state parliament in 1932 . In parliament he represented constituency 4 (Potsdam I). Later he was a member of the NSDAP .

Gauger died towards the end of the Second World War and was buried in the Beelitz war cemetery.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 520.
• Rainer Pomp: Farmers and large landowners on their way to the Third Reich. The Brandenburg State Federation 1919–1933. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011. pp. 126–135.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Online project memorials for the fallen: Beelitz (war cemetery), Potsdam-Mittelmark district, Brandenburg. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .