Wilhelm Königswarter (politician)
Wilhelm Julius Königswarter (born August 30, 1890 in Hanover ; † December 12, 1966 in West Berlin ) was a German SPD politician .
Life
Wilhelm was a member of the Jewish Königswarter family who originally came from the Austro-Hungarian Königswart in northern Bohemia and were later ennobled . He was the son of the baron and entrepreneur Julius von Königswarter and Sophie Runne .
After attending the humanistic grammar school in Hanover, Königswarter studied economics and law in Leipzig , Marburg and Berlin . He received his doctorate in law from the University of Göttingen in 1914 and worked as a businessman after completing his legal clerkship.
After the seizure of power of the Nazis was to Königswarter first time because of § 175 ( homosexuality determined). He was arrested several times.
politics
In the Weimar Republic , Königswarter was a member of the DDP and until 1930 belonged to the extended Reich Executive Committee. In 1945 he did not join the liberal successor parties of the DDP, but the SPD, in whose reconstruction in Berlin he participated. He was chairman of the specialist committee for money and credit of the SPD Berlin .
Since Werner Kreuziger (1903-1999) resigned from the city council of Greater Berlin , Königswarter moved up in November 1950 for two months.
With the increase in the number of Berlin MPs on February 1, 1952, Königswarter came to the German Bundestag , to which he was a Berlin representative until 1961.
Fonts
- The joke as a weapon . Info book publisher Alfons F. Schöpflin, Berlin 1947.
literature
- Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (Ed.); Nicolai Clarus (collaborator): Königswarter, Wilhelm. In: man for man . Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area. Lit, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , pp. 673f., 1483, 1552. (partly online via Google books )
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 149 (331 pages).
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 438.
- Hans Jaeger: Königswarter (bankers). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ). - To the ancestors.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Jaeger: Königswarter. (see literature)
- ↑ a b c Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (ed.), Nicolai Clarus (collaborator): Königswarter, Wilhelm. In: man for man . 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Königswarter, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Königswarter, Wilhelm Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1966 |
| Place of death | West Berlin |