Wilhelm Korspeter

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Wilhelm Korspeter (born October 19, 1897 in Westerkappeln , Tecklenburg district , † January 21, 1967 in Osnabrück ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Wilhelm Korspeter attended the Ratsgymnasium in Osnabrück. He participated in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. After the war he graduated from a national economic and political university degree in the years 1919 to 1923, where he attended the 1922 College of political science and economics in Detmold the economics graduate earned. He then worked as a journalist from 1924 to 1933.

Due to political persecution, Korspeter was unemployed from 1933 to 1939. He was arrested by the Gestapo and had to undergo a trial for preparation for high treason . Despite this, he continued to do illegal political work.

After the end of the Second World War , Wilhelm Korspeter was appointed city councilor in Magdeburg in June 1945 . Since he did not support the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in 1946, he came under political pressure; the communists stated of him as a city council:

“His political behavior is that of a right-wing social democrat. So far there are hardly any signs that he is looking for honest cooperation with the communists "

After Korspeter was reprimanded by the Soviet military administration when the SPD was banned in the Soviet occupation zone , he fled to the West for political reasons in February 1946.

At the Hannoversche Presse founded on July 18, 1946 in Hanover , Korspeter took over the editor-in-chief together with Walter Spengemann . They set up their workplace in the courier house on Georgstrasse .

From 1957 to 1966 Wilhelm Kospeter was a member of the Lower Saxony State Court .

From April 20, 1947 to April 30, 1951, Korspeter was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (1st electoral period).

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 211.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Doerfert: The Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences - Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924) . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, p. 192 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Schmidt: "- Mitfahren or discarded": the compulsory unification of KPD and SPD in the province of Saxony / in the state of Saxony-Anhalt 1945-1949, Volume 2 of research on the latest history, LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004 , ISBN 9783825870669 , page 159
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Hannoversche Presse (hp). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Korspeter, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerkappeln , Tecklenburg district
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1967
Place of death Osnabrück