Wilhelm Reimann

Wilhelm Reimann (born June 23, 1882 in Arensdorf, Oststernberg district , † March 18, 1952 in West Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Reimann was a herding boy and farm worker before he went to Berlin in 1898 , where he became a factory worker. In 1900 he became a member of the factory workers' association and in the following year a member of the SPD. In 1911 he became the full-time union secretary of the association of factory workers. In 1913 Reimann was elected community representative in Niederschöneweide . During the First World War he became a soldier in 1915, but returned after illness in 1917 and was employed in the armaments industry. During this time he switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD).

In the Weimar Republic Reimann was again a full-time trade union secretary and in 1919 became chairman of the association of factory workers for Greater Berlin. In this position he also became a functionary of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). In the election for the Berlin city council in 1921, Reimann was elected for constituency 13 ( Treptow , Köpenick ), still for the USPD. But the following year he returned to the United Social Democratic Party of Germany (VSPD) with the bulk of the remaining USPD members . In 1926 he was elected by the district assembly of the Weißensee district as a paid city councilor and deputy mayor . After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists , Reimann was dismissed for allegedly “unsuitable” and was unemployed until the end of the Second World War .

In the Berlin election in October 1946 , Reimann was elected to the district council of the Weissensee district and two months later was elected mayor. In December 1948 he had to resign as the command of the Soviet sector made him increasingly difficult. His successor was then Hermann Solbach ( CDU ).

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 217 (331 pages).
• Active Museum Association : Put in Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , p. 318.

Web links

• Plenary minutes of the House of Representatives of March 20, 1952 - obituary