Wilhelm Hamacher

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Wilhelm Hamacher (born October 11, 1883 in Troisdorf , † July 29, 1951 in Bonn ) was a German politician of the Center Party .

Life

Hamacher, who had a degree in history, geography and classical languages, earned his 1,911 Dr. phil. He worked as a teacher until 1920. From 1920 to 1933 he was Secretary General of the Center Party of the Rhineland and from 1926 to 1933 he also represented the Rhine Province in the Reichsrat . In the latter capacity, he protested on February 16, 1933 together with the representatives of the Province of Westphalia ( Anton Gilsing ), the Province of Hessen-Nassau ( Otto Witte ) and the Province of Saxony ( Paul Weber ) against the fact that - contrary to the judgment of the State Court of 25 October 1932 - the votes to be represented by the Prussian state government should in future be exercised by Reich Commissioners. After 1933 he worked as a teacher again.

From November 1945 to 1949 he was senior director of studies and director of the grammar school in Siegburg.

In 1945 he took part in the re-establishment of the center and was also its first federal chairman until 1946. In addition, in 1946 he was North Rhine-Westphalia's minister of culture for a short time in Rudolf Amelunxen's cabinet and at the same time chairman of the center in the Siegkreis . He was a member of the German Bundestag from the first federal election in 1949 until his death.

On the question of whether an interdenominational union party or two (certainly allied) denominational Christian parties should be preferred, Hamacher had spoken out against the union, because otherwise political Catholicism would have to perish in the political dispute against the numerically superior Protestants.

Hamacher is criticized today for the compliance with which he agreed to work with the National Socialists as the parliamentary group chairman of the center in Troisdorf in 1933 , after all, despite all the reprisals, the center had become the strongest force in the city council. However, the criticism is countered by the fact that the faction of the Center Party was under immense pressure, since the city councilors of the SPD and KPD had already been arrested and the center delegates were threatened with something similar.

Hamacher was a member of the KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV since 1906 . The Wilhelm-Hamacher-place in his home town of Troisdorf is named after him.

See also

Publications

  • Wilhelm Hamacher: Why Center? Bastion Verlag, Düsseldorf 1946.
  • Wilhelm Hamacher (Ed.): Troisdorf in the mirror of the time: Contributions to local history. Anniversary publication for the 50th anniversary of the independent Troisdorf community . Publishing house F. Schmitt, Siegburg 1950.

literature

  • K. Ossendorf: Wilhelm Hamacher's struggle for the center . Troisdorf annual books No. 13, Troisdorf 1983.

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