Wilhelm Rahn (politician, 1885)

Wilhelm Rahn (born December 16, 1885 in Bütow ) was a German politician (USPD, KPD, SPD, DVP).

Wilhelm Rahn attended elementary school and worked until 1914 as an employee in the shipping and banking industry. In 1913 he was a co-founder of the (free trade union) general association of bank employees in Berlin . 1914- [1937] he was an independent businessman (import and export of herrings) in Danzig .

In November 1918, he was after the November Revolution member of the Executive Committee of workers and soldiers councils of West Prussia. In December 1918 he was a delegate at the 1st Council Congress in Berlin. In 1918 he was a member of the USPD , since January 1921 the KPD and since June 1923 the Danzig SPD .

A Reichstag candidacy in 1919 in constituency 2 (West Prussia province) was unsuccessful.

In 1920 he was Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly of the Free City of Danzig and was a member of the People's Day until 1930 . In the 2nd Volkstag he resigned from the SPD.

The rejection of the state budget in 1925 by Vice President Ernst Ziehm led to a government crisis. A minority senate consisting of the SPD, the center and the German Liberal Party was formed as the new Senate on August 19, 1925 . This government was tolerated by the Poles and the now non-attached MP Wilhelm Rahn.

In the People's Day election in 1927 he stood for the German People's Party and then remained a member of the People's Day until 1930.

literature

• Stefan Samerski : The Catholic Church in the Free City of Danzig . 1991, ISBN 3412017914 , p. 81

Web links

• Biography of Wilhelm Rahn . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)