Wilhelm Schlueter (politician, 1871)

Wilhelm Schlueter

Wilhelm Schlueter (born August 28, 1871 in Rehme (today Bad Oeynhausen ), † January 8, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Live and act

Wilhelm Schlueter attended elementary school in Rehme from 1878 to 1886 . From the age of eight he worked at home in cigar production. From the age of twelve, Schlüter worked in W. Lücking's cigar factory in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1887 he finished his apprenticeship as a cigar worker. From 1888 to 1890 Schlüter traveled all over Germany as a wanderer and worked on the way at all the main production sites of the tobacco industry. Since 1888 Schlüter, who had been involved in the labor movement from an early age , was also active as an agitator for social democracy . From 1891 to 1893 he was a member of the military. In 1893 he was sent as a delegate to the tobacco workers' congress in Berlin by the tobacco workers in his home country .

Schlüter, who had been married since 1896, first became well known with a series of articles in the magazine Der Tabakarbeiter , in which he described the misery of the tobacco workers in eastern Westphalia and thus drew the public's attention to the grievances in this milieu. Not least because of this achievement, he was elected Gauleiter of the German Tobacco Workers' Association in 1905.

He later moved to Herford , where he became the cashier for the SPD Herford-Halle association. Schlüter was a member of Herford's city ​​council since 1916 . During the last two years of the First World War he was also a member of the workers' secretariat.

In 1919 Wilhelm Schlueter took part in the constituent national assembly of the Weimar Republic for his party . In Bielefeld he was a member of the district leadership of the SPD for eastern Westphalia. He also represented his party from 1921 to 1924 as a member of the Prussian state parliament and from 1924 to 1930 as a member of constituency 17 (Münster-Minden-Lippe, later Westphalia-North) in the Reichstag in Berlin .

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 167.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Schlueter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilhelm Schlueter in the database of members of the Reichstag