Wilhelm Pawlik (trade unionist)
Wilhelm Pawlik (born June 25, 1900 in Essen ; † January 9, 1968 there ) was from 1948 to 1961 chairman of the HBV union , a German politician and former member of the state parliament ( SPD ).
Life and work
At the age of twelve, Pawlik was a member of the Socialist Workers Youth . In 1915 he joined the union and trained at the consumer cooperative . In 1918 Pawlik was a soldier in the First World War. Union and political activities shaped him. In 1920 he became a member of the USPD . From 1922 he was employed as a union secretary at the municipal and state workers' association in Magdeburg, Berlin, Erfurt and from 1930 in Essen. From 1933 he was unemployed, from 1939 to 1945 Pawlik was a soldier in World War II.
After the end of the war, he was elected executive chairman of the Essen local committee of the DGB . In 1948 Hans Böckler , the chairman of the DGB, commissioned him to found the trade union for trade, banks and insurance in the DGB. At the merger union day in 1949 he was appointed first chairman of the HBV union; he held it until 1961. He was represented in numerous other committees, e. B. AOK and IHK .
Wilhelm Pawlik was married and had 2 daughters.
He found his final resting place in the southwest cemetery in Essen .
MP
From April 20, 1947 to June 17, 1950, Pawlik was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was directly elected in the constituency 051 063 Essen-Katernberg. He was a part of the city council of Essen.
literature
- Klaus Mertsching: Pawlik, Bernhard Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 142 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Wilhelm Pawlik at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Short biography: https://www.verdi.de/ueber-uns/idee-tradition/gruendungsgewerkschaften/++co++7055a62c-99cc-11e1-5004-0019b9e321e1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claus Eilrich / Hans Otto Hemmer (ed.): The new majority - picture reading book - employees . Dietz, Berlin; Bonn 1988, p. 50, ISBN 3-8012-0133-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pawlik, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1968 |
| Place of death | eat |