Wilhelm Kleinknecht
Wilhelm Kleinknecht (born January 16, 1893 in Oberweissach ; † April 13, 1966 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German trade union official and politician.
Career
Kleinknecht was chairman of the Württemberg-Baden district, later Baden-Württemberg, of the German Federation of Trade Unions .
The commercial employee was a member of the Central Association of Employees (ZdA) from 1910 . From 1922 to 1929 he was honorary district manager of the Association for Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. From 1929 to 1933 he worked as an employee of the General Association of Public Enterprises and the Movement of People and Goods in Stuttgart .
After the Nazi regime began , Kleinknecht was persecuted for political reasons. The police arrested him on March 31, 1933. Kleinknecht was deported to the Heuberg concentration camp , where he was imprisoned until 1935. After his release, Kleinknecht became involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime in the network of illegal railway groups around Hans Jahn . In August 1940 he was arrested and interrogated. He denied having committed illegal or "treasonable" acts. Since these could not be proven to him, Kleinknecht was not charged.
After the end of the Second World War, from September 1945 on, Kleinknecht worked in the specialist group "Transport, Public Enterprises and Administrations" of the Württemberg Trade Union Federation. From September 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the executive board of the Württemberg-Baden trade union federation. From 1950 to 1960 Kleinknecht was a member of the executive board and from May 1951 to January 1960 chairman of the DGB regional district of Baden-Württemberg.
From 1946 to 1952 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden as a member of the SPD .
Honors
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : the German Who's Who , Berlin: Arani, 1955
- Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , p. 538 f. (Short biography).
Web links
- Photo by Wilhelm Habel at LEO Baden-Württemberg
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinknecht, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade union official and politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberweissach |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1966 |
| Place of death | Ludwigsburg |