Wilhelm Schlueter (politician, 1900)

Wilhelm Schlueter (born May 11, 1900 in Braunschweig ; † January 26, 1976 there ) was a German politician of the ( SPD ), trade union official and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Wilhelm Schlüter attended elementary and trade school before completing a commercial apprenticeship. From 1917 to 1933 he worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in operational service. From spring 1918 to November 1918 he was drafted for military service. Because of his trade union and political activities, especially in the socialist youth movement, he was imprisoned for some time in 1933 and dismissed from the Reichsbahn service. After his discharge from the railway, he was unemployed for a year. From 1934 to 1945 he worked as a machine worker at Mühlenbau- und Industrie AG in Braunschweig. From June 1945 he worked as an employee in the labor administration. He was an honorary citizen of the Stöckheim community, which now belongs to the city of Braunschweig .

politics

Schlüter was a member of the local political committee of the German Settlers Association. Initially, he worked as an employment office employee and at the same time worked as a functionary for the public services, transport and traffic union (ÖTV). He had his first political mandate from 1947 as a member of the district council and an alderman in the district committee of the Braunschweig district . From June 1947 he was also mayor of the municipality Klein Stöckheim, from April 1961 to June 1963 also district administrator of the district of Braunschweig. From May 6, 1955 to June 5, 1967, he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament during its 3rd , 4th and 5th electoral periods .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 331.
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution - resistance - emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 647-648 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ honorary citizen of the city of Braunschweig on braunschweig.de; Retrieved February 7, 2013.
2. ^ District administrators and senior district directors from 1946 . In: Landkreis Braunschweig (Ed.): Heimatbote des Landkreis Braunschweig 1974 . Oeding, Braunschweig 1974, p. 27 .