Wilhelm Helling

Wilhelm Helling (born July 25, 1881 in Vehs , † September 4, 1925 in Davos ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Wilhelm Helling attended elementary school in Vehs and a private school in Switzerland. After that, Helling worked in agriculture for a few years. He later switched to the hotel industry and worked as a waiter , accountant, manager and worked in this capacity for five years in France , four years in Norway and, for a shorter period, in England , Belgium , Holland , Switzerland , Italy and Egypt .

From 1911 to 1914 Helling was co-owner of a fashion store in Christiania . In 1914 he returned to Germany to take part in the First World War from July 1915 until the end of the war , most of which he experienced on the Western Front . Having suffered from lung disease in the war, he was dismissed with a 40% pension.

In the spring of 1919, Helling took over the chairmanship of the Northwest German Employees' Association in Osnabrück. From 1922 he was also a co-founder and board member of the Reich Association of Small Agricultural Enterprises in Berlin. In addition, he began to become increasingly involved in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

In December 1924 Helling was elected as a candidate for the SPD for constituency 14 (Weser-Ems) as a member of the Reichstag, to which he belonged until his death in September 1925. In Parliament, he was noticed primarily as an agricultural expert. After his death, Helling's mandate was taken over by Hermann Tempel for the rest of the legislative period .

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• The relationship of the poor associations to the insurance companies , 1901. (together with Alfred Olshausen)

Not Wilhelm Helling from Vehs, but Dr. Wilhelm Helling from Lübeck, Council of the State Insurance Company of the Hanseatic Cities, was the co-author of this publication. That results u. a. also from personal data. When this work was published, Wilhelm Helling from Vehs was only 20 years old. (Source: Writings of the German Association for Poor Care and Charity, Issue 53, Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker and Humblot, 1901)

Web links

• Wilhelm Helling in the database of members of the Reichstag