Wilhelm Rexrodt

Wilhelm Rexrodt (born March 18, 1895 in Wanfried an der Werra , Eschwege district ; † April 21, 1969 in Berlin - Wilmersdorf ) was a German politician ( DDP , LDP ).

Life

Wilhelm Rexrodt attended the Friedrich Wilhelm School in Eschwege until 1908 and then the grammar school in Torgau . After graduating from high school on August 22, 1914, which he took early because of the ordered mobilization of the army ( Notabitur ), he went to the First World War . He entered the military on August 28, 1914, and was released from the 5th battery on December 10, 1918/1. Posensches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 20 with the military rank of a deputy guard. After the war he studied economics and finance at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management , passed his commercial diploma there on May 8, 1920, and received his doctorate in political science on December 5, 1922 (Dr. rer. Pol. With summa cum laude ).

In 1919 Rexrodt joined the German Democratic Party . In the Weimar Republic from April 1925 he was general secretary of the DDP Nuremberg and the Reichstag constituency of Franconia and from 1928 to 1931 Reich manager of the DDP in Berlin. In 1945 he was a co-founder of the LDP in Saxony-Anhalt and Halle. He had to leave the Soviet occupation zone in 1952 and was admitted to Berlin (West) on December 22, 1952 .

Rexrodt had been with Walburga Rexrodt, b. Schoyerer (born January 24, 1904, † April 10, 1944) married. His only child, Günter Rexrodt, was State Secretary to the Senator for Economics in the 1980s, then Senator for Finance in West Berlin and, after reunification, Federal Minister of Economics from 1993 to 1998 .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Bannasch: Dr. Wilhelm Rexrodt. A liberal politician between East and West. In: the town hall. Zeitschrift für Kommunalpolitik , ISSN  0174-4984 , part 1, 64th vol., Issue 6, Berlin 2011, pp. 173-176; Part 2, vol. 65, issue 1, Berlin 2012, pp. 21-23.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Rexrodt in the catalog of the German National Library