Wilhelm Nowack (politician)
Wilhelm Nowack (born August 28, 1897 in Altenburg , † July 31, 1990 in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg ) was a German economist , journalist and politician ( DDP or DStP, FDP ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school, Nowack began studying political economy and political science in Berlin and Innsbruck . But he had to interrupt this due to the First World War , in which he participated as a soldier from 1914 to 1918. He continued after the war, the study continued, graduated as Dr. rer. pol and worked from 1920 to 1922 for technical emergency aid in West Germany. He then switched to journalism, was employed by the publishing house Die Hilfe in 1922/23 and from 1924 to 1929 editor of the Republican Illustrated Magazine . During the Nazi era he worked as a freelance journalist, including for the Frankfurter Zeitung .
After the Second World War , Nowack initially worked as a radio editor. In 1946 he founded the Rhein-Zeitung in Koblenz together with Peter Josef Stein , but sold his shares to Walter Twer after just one year . In addition, he headed the economics department of the Oberpräsident von Koblenz and was then appointed to the administration of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics as a senior councilor.
Political party
Nowack was one of the co-founders of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold during the Weimar Republic and was its deputy chairman in the Berlin-Brandenburg district. He also joined the DDP , which in 1930 became part of the German State Party (DStP). This in turn dissolved in 1933 under pressure from the National Socialists. After the end of the war, Nowack joined the FDP . He was a member of the FDP federal executive committee from 1954 to 1959 , was deputy federal chairman of his party from 1955/56 and from 1953 to 1958 regional chairman of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate .
MP
Nowack was from 1947 to 1958 a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament and from 1948 to 1951 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. He was a member of the German Bundestag in its first legislative period from 1949 until his resignation on September 30, 1952.
Public offices
Nowack was appointed Minister of Finance and Reconstruction to the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier on June 13, 1951 . He announced his resignation on October 14, 1958, resigned from office on November 11, 1958 and was replaced as Finance Minister by Hans Georg Dahlgrün .
In 1961 he was indicted by the Chief Public Prosecutor at the Frankenthal Regional Court, Leonhard Drach , and sentenced to six months in prison by the Frankenthal Regional Court. After Drach charged him with perjury in another trial, Nowack made public that he had worked on death sentences as a public prosecutor at the Luxembourg special court and therefore had to serve part of a 20-year prison sentence in Luxembourg.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 611.
See also
Web links
- Photo by Wilhelm Nowack ( Memento from September 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The lintel . In: Der Spiegel , 6/1965 .
Fritz Neumayer (1947) | Carl Neubronner (1947–1948) | Wilhelm Nowack (1948–1951) | Anton Eberhard (1951–1952) | Karl Lahr (1952–1953) | Karl Motz (1953–1955) | Fritz Glahn (1955–1957) | Valentin Wallauer (1957–1959) | Fritz Schneider (1959–1963) | Günter Storch (1963–1969) | Werner Danz (1969–1982) | Hans-Otto Scholl (1982–1983) | Rainer Brüderle (1987) | Hans Hermann Dieckvoss (1987–1996) | Hans-Artur Bauckhage (1996–1998) | Werner Kuhn (1998-2006) | Herbert Mertin (2006–2011) | Volker Wissing (2016) | Thomas Roth (2016–2017) | Cornelia Willius-Senzer (since 2017)
Hanns Haberer (1946–1947) | Oskar Stübinger (1947) | Hans Hoffmann (1947–1949, 1949–1951) | Wilhelm Nowack (1951–1958) | Hans Georg Dahlgrün (1958–1959) | Fritz Glahn (1959–1966) | Hermann Eicher (1966–1971) | Johann Wilhelm Gaddum (1971–1981) | Carl-Ludwig Wagner (1981–1988) | Emil Wolfgang Keller (1988–1991) | Edgar Meister (1991–1993) | Gernot Mittler (1993-2006) | Ingolf Deubel (2006–2009) | Carsten Kühl (2009–2014) | Doris Ahnen (since 2014)
Wilhelm Rautenstrauch (1947) | Ellen Thress (1947) | Ellen Thress, Josef Dohr , Otto Frank , Alfred Steger (1947–1948) | Josef Dohr (1948–1951) | Anton Eberhard (1951–1953) | Wilhelm Nowack (1953–1958) | Fritz Glahn (1958–1966) | Hermann Eicher (1966–1972) | Kurt Jung (1972–1974) | Hans-Otto Scholl (1974–1981) | Hans-Günther Heinz (1981–1983) | Rainer Brüderle (1983–2011) | Volker Wissing (since 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nowack, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DDP, DStP, FDP), MdB, MdL, Rhineland-Palatinate state minister, journalist and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1990 |
| Place of death | Feldafing |