Wilhelm Sante
Wilhelm Sante (born January 21, 1886 in Goslar , † May 19, 1961 in Oldenburg ) was a German politician ( Center Party , CDU ), ministerial chief inspector and senator in Oldenburg.
Life
Wilhelm Sante was the son of the master cooper and later Reichsbahn official Adolf Sante and his wife Auguste Hense. He grew up with his parents in Goslar and attended the local Catholic community school. He then completed an office apprenticeship with the city administration before attending a training school in Mönchengladbach , the seat of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany .
Wilhelm Sante came to Oldenburg in 1912 as the trade union secretary of the Catholic Workers' Association and State Secretary of the Catholic People's Association. In that year he also joined the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse , where he was elected to the board in 1914 .
As a member of the Center Party , he was a member of the constituent state assembly in 1919 and then was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament until 1933 . He was first a ministerial inspector, then a senior inspector in the Oldenburg State Ministry until he was expelled from the state parliament by the National Socialists in 1933 for political reasons . He was also temporarily detained.
As early as 1923 he was a co-founder of the Oldenburg funeral benefit fund , which he ran independently from 1933 and transferred to the Oldenburg public insurance company shortly before his death .
After the end of National Socialism, Wilhelm Sante was a co-founder of the CDU in the Oldenburger Land in 1946 . He already took part in the first meeting on March 11, 1946 to found a CDU regional association, and on September 25, 1946, as a member of the regional committee, he was one of the signatories of the first regional statutes. From 1948 to 1961 he was councilor and senator in the management committee of the city of Oldenburg. In the CDU he held the position of parliamentary group spokesman. From 1960 to 1961 Wilhelm Sante was district chairman, then honorary district chairman of the CDU. He was considered the "gray eminence" of the CDU of the city of Oldenburg.
Sante had refused to return to civil service because officials were not allowed to be politically active under the Allied occupation.
In the years after the Second World War , Wilhelm Sante was particularly committed to helping people looking for accommodation. In addition, he was one of the main initiators of the social committees of the Christian-Democratic workforce, which were emerging at the local level and formed as a non-denominational working group of Christian workers within the CDU.
In 1955 Wilhelm Sante received the Federal Cross of Merit for his services to social health insurance .
family
Sante's first marriage to Maria was geb. Effner (1888–1935) married; together they had four children (Wilhelm [1913 – fallen 1945], Maria [1915–1999], Günther [1920–1993] and Ursula Rehling [born Sante 1925]). In 1938 Wilhelm Sante married Maria Gesine Nye Verw. Wüst (1896–1955).
His son Günther, Oldenburg city councilor and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, and his great-grandson Nils Janßen (mother: Martina Maria Katharin Janßen née Rehling), member of the Bremen Youth Union , followed in his political footsteps.
literature
- Robert Meyer: Sante, Karl August Wilhelm. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 630 f. ( online ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sante, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sante, Karl August Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Senator in Oldenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goslar |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1961 |
| Place of death | Oldenburg |