Wilhelm Reupke

Wilhelm Reupke (born July 6, 1877 in Langelsheim , † April 9, 1933 in Vienenburg , Hanover province ) was a German political functionary and politician ( SPD , USPD ).

Live and act

After attending elementary school , Reupke completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and stone carver. He then deepened his knowledge at a building trade school and then went on a hike. In 1897 he joined the SPD and the construction workers' association. After serving in the Prussian Army , Reupke was chairman of the branch of the construction workers' association in Bad Harzburg until the outbreak of the First World War .

At the end of 1917 Reupke joined the USPD from the SPD, but returned to the SPD in 1922. After the collapse of the German Empire and the outbreak of the November Revolution, Reupe became chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Bad Harzburg . In December 1918 he was one of the delegates of the 1st Reichsrätekongress in Berlin. In 1919 and 1920 Reupke was a member of the Braunschweig Landtag . During the Weimar Republic he served as city councilor and parliamentary group leader in Bad Harzburg. From 1920 on, Reupke headed the local health insurance fund in the Bad Harzburg district as chairman of the board and from 1923 on as managing director of the Bündheim consumer and savings cooperative .

Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Reupke was found hanged on a tree. According to an entry in a memorial book of the SPD, he allegedly fell victim to a political murder after a collision with SA members on the way from Goslar to Bad Harzburg.

See also

• The victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony areas

literature

• Social Democratic Party of Germany: Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-894-72173-1 , p. 268.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} biography of Wilhelm Reupke . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)