Wilhelm Schmehl

Wilhelm Schmehl (born February 6, 1892 in Burg ( Wetzlar district ), † October 29, 1962 in Harrisleefeld ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and active in the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Schmehl, son of the former Christian Schmehl, attended elementary school in Wertheim am Main and learned his father's trade. In 1909 Schmehl joined the SPD. In 1911 he was drafted into active service in the Navy. He spent the First World War on board warships, in the last year of the war he was a field gray . After he was fired in 1919, he was a journeyman and foreman. During the National Socialist era , Schmehl and his comrades in Harrisle smuggled social democratic refugees across the border into Denmark. Schmehl was arrested three times by the Gestapo and spent a year and a half in strict solitary confinement in preparation for high treason.

After the re-establishment of the SPD, he became the first district chairman in the Flensburg district , deputy district administrator and mayor. In 1948 he was first appointed honorary mayor of Harrislee . On May 3, 1948, he moved up to the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, to which he belonged until 1950. Schmehl was also a member of the first Federal Assembly (September 12, 1949). On June 1, 1950, he became mayor of Harrislee Ward. He held the office of mayor until 1958.

Web links

• Wilhelm Schmehl in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Pantléon: 650 years of Harrislee. Chronicle 1352-2002. Harrislee Ward , Harrislee 2002, p. 446, ISBN 3-932635-27-2 .
2. ↑ Hans Christian Nissen: 1933-1945: Resistance, persecution, emigration, adaptation. In: Democratic History . Volume 3, 1988, p. 483, accessed March 9, 2018.