Wilhelm Meinicke

Wilhelm "Willi" Meinicke (born January 24, 1906 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † July 1, 1982 in Oberhausen ) was a German politician ( SPD ). For many years he was a city ​​councilor in Oberhausen and a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Wilhelm Meinicke did an apprenticeship as a construction worker after elementary school , but was also employed and after 1945 became managing director of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Oberhausen and the Sterkrader housing cooperative .

Meinicke came from a Social Democratic family, had been a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth since 1920 and joined the SPD in 1924 at the age of 18. In 1932 he temporarily joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD) in protest against the SPD's course at the time. After the Second World War, Meinicke first campaigned for the unification of the SPD and KPD and took part in the unification party convention in Berlin in April 1946, which took place in the Soviet occupation zone . As a result, he was temporarily excluded from the SPD. Later he was considered a representative of the right wing SPD, but sometimes swam against the current within the party. He was one of the 16 delegates who voted against the Godesberg program at the SPD party congress in 1959 , was against the grand coalition in the 1960s and was a staunch opponent of the emergency laws .

Meinicke was councilor of the city of Oberhausen from 1946 to 1979, and from 1947 to 1978 as chairman of the SPD council group. He was elected in the second electoral term in constituency 75 (Oberhausen-Nord) and again in the sixth (78, Oberhausen II) as a direct candidate for the SPD in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, so he was a member of parliament from July 5, 1950 to April 4. July 1954 and from July 24, 1966 to July 25, 1970.

In Oberhausen, the municipal green area Wilhelm-Meinicke-Park and a senior citizens 'facility of the workers' welfare are named after him.

Wilhelm Meinicke's son Erich Meinike was an SPD member of the Bundestag from 1969 to 1983.

Web links

• Wilhelm Meinicke at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Der Wehner von Oberhausen , by Frank Dittmeyer, in Shift Change (2/2007), pp. 28–30. (PDF file; 363 kB)