Wilhelm Ludwig Andresen

Wilhelm Ludwig (WL) Andresen (born May 16, 1885 in Kating ; † April 21, 1983 in Husum ) was a German journalist and minority politician.

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Wilhelm Ludwig Andresen was a son of the farmer Johann Tetens Andresen (born October 1, 1831 in Kating; † February 3, 1913 there) and his wife Catharina Elisabeth, née Hogrefe (born April 14, 1847 in Altendeich in Oldenswort ; † July 18 1926 in Kating). After attending elementary school in Kating, he started training as a printer with the “Eider-Boten” from Tönning . In 1903 he went from there to the publishing and advertising industry. He worked in Hamburg and Berlin as a typist, advertising assistant, telephone stenographer, including for Vorwärts .

From 1905 to 1914 Andresen was a member of the SPD . He resigned on the basis of the war loans that had been agreed. From 1916 to 1918 he served as a soldier. In 1919 he returned to his homeland, where he was fascinated by the arguments between Germans and Danes. Because of history and international law, he saw the Danes in the right and got a job with the pro-Danish newspaper "Der Schleswiger". In May 1923 he co-founded the Frisian-Schleswig Association, today's Friisk Foriining , and was its deputy chairman. Together with Johannes Oldsen , he was one of the key people who developed a radical Frisian concept. He advocated this in many articles, leaflets and brochures. He fought for the Frisians to be recognized as their own national minority and so that the Frisian language and culture would be better supported.

Andresen and Oldsen tried unsuccessfully to join the Frisian-Schleswig Association at the European Nationalities Congress . The “List Friesland”, which ran in the district council elections in 1925, 1929 and 1939 in southern Tondern and in the Reichstag elections, was formed especially on Andresen's initiative . His work “The dying parliamentarism” shows how, in his opinion, a decentralized state should be structured and how North Friesland's self-government should be designed. The farmer and politician Cornelius Petersen (1882–1935) had a strong influence on him. We worked closely together for some time.

Andresen lived in Flensburg and Lübeck from 1919 to 1922, then in Kating until 1926 and in Flensburg from 1926 to 1965. He worked as a journalist for the Danish press and as an advertising consultant. For some time he also worked as a representative for book publishers. During the time of National Socialism he had to accept several reprisals. This included repeated house searches, and in 1937 his writing “Danish through self-teaching” was banned. He was also banned from publication.

After the end of the war, Andresen was again committed to connecting southern Schleswig to Denmark and worked for Flensborg Avis . In 1965 he moved to Husum. Even in old age he called for a Frisian party to be created for North Frisia, but found no supporters for it.

On December 23, 1963 Andresen married the painter Margareta Erichsen (born August 18, 1916 in Flensburg ; † 2006). The marriage remained childless.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margareta Erichsen 100 År / years / Iir. Nordfriisk Instituut online. Retrieved November 23, 2017.

Works

• Andresen, Wilhelm Ludwig: Besök bi ole Frünn . Memoirs of life, written in Eiderstedt Low German. WL Andresen Verlag, Husum 1981.

literature

• Thomas Steensen: Andresen, Wilhelm Ludwig . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 8. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1987, pp. 23-24.