Wilhelm Meier (politician)

Wilhelm Meier (born September 16, 1887 in Knetterheide ; † July 9, 1957 in Gadderbaum near Bielefeld) was a German shoemaker and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Meier, the son of a factory worker, attended elementary school and trained as a shoemaker from 1901 to 1904. Until 1915 he was a shoemaker and brickworker with residence in Knetterheide, since 1913 in Detmold. From 1915 to 1918 he participated in the war. He was initially of the Protestant denomination and then left the church.

politics

From 1910 to 1913 he was co-founder and chairman of the SPD in Knetterheide, in 1914 chairman of the SPD constituency organization in Lippe. In 1913 he completed a training course in the central SPD party school in Berlin. From 1922 to 1929 he was a member of the SPD district committee for Eastern Westphalia / Lippe. From January 1919 to June 1929 he worked as party secretary for the SPD sub-district Lippe, based in Detmold. There he was also a city councilor.

In the state elections in Lippe in 1919 he was elected to the Lippe state parliament, to which he belonged until 1929. There he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and from February 1921 to June 1929 president of the Lippe parliament. He resigned his mandate on June 25, 1929. Heinrich Waldvogt became a successor in the state parliament .

In 1929 he moved to Schneidemühl (Posen). After the seizure of power by the Nazis he was detained in May 1933 in the police prison Schneidemühl. He was imprisoned again between June 1933 and autumn 1933 and was held in the Hammerstein concentration camp. After the expulsion he was editor of the " Free Press " in Bielefeld from 1945 .

literature

• Biography of Wilhelm Meier (politician) . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)
• Hans Hüls: Voters and voting behavior in the Land of Lippe in the Weimar Republic, 1974, pp. 146–148.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 226.