Wilhelm Schmidt (politician, 1878, Prussia)

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Wilhelm Schmidt

Wilhelm Schmidt (born January 5, 1878 in Achenbach , Biedenkopf district , † 1945 ) was a German politician (DNVP, NSDAP).

Live and act

After attending elementary school in Dillenburg, Schmidt learned the profession of book printer from 1892 to 1896 in Dillenburg and Wermelskirchen. From 1896 to 1903 he worked as a typesetter and proofreader in Remscheid , Döbeln, Düsseldorf and Lüdenscheid . He then worked for two years as editor and party secretary for the Christian-social Nassauer Volksfreund . He then held office for two years as the district manager of the Christian miners' union in Dillenburg. From 1907 to 1913 Schmidt worked as general secretary of the Baden section of the Conservative Party. He then acted as General Secretary of the Conservative Association of the Province of Hanover until the November Revolution of 1918 .

From 1917 Schmidt took part in the First World War as an artilleryman . In 1917 he took part in the Battle of Flanders and in 1918 the trench warfare at Hartmannsweilerkopf , for which he received the War Merit Cross.

In 1919 Schmidt joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). For this he sat from December 1924 to 1928 as a member of the Prussian state parliament and from July 1932 to November 1933 as a member of the Reichstag for constituency 5 (Frankfurt / Oder) .

In the 1920s, Schmidt worked as head of economic aid for the Central Association of Agricultural Workers in Berlin. In 1921 he was also admitted to the board of directors of the Evangelical Social School Spandau-Johannesstift. At the beginning of 1924 Schmidt participated in the founding of the Reichsbund vaterländischer Arbeiter- und Werkvereine eV, which he also chaired. In addition, there was membership in the Provisional Reich Economic Council and ongoing involvement in the welfare association for war mutilated people in Hanover, which he co-founded.

In 1933 Schmidt joined the NSDAP .

As a journalist, Schmidt went public with a large number of writings of a political-national and industrial community nature.

Fonts

  • The German labor movement of the pre-war and revolutionary years with special consideration of the idea of ​​a work community , Berlin 1925.
  • The Werkgsgemeinschafts thought in state and economy , Berlin 1925.
  • For the freedom of the employment contract , Berlin 1927.
  • Entrepreneur - Worker - Economy , Berlin [1927].
  • Humanity and work, the basis of the economic and state order , slea [Berlin 1929].
  • Workers and Works Association , 1927.
  • The NSDAP on the trade union issue , 1932.
  • Labor, Economy, Currency, Thoughts and Proposals , 1932.
  • My resignation from the DNVP , s. l. 1933.
  • 10 years of history of the collective labor movement , Miersdorf near Zeuthen 1933.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mattheier: The yellow ones . National Workers Between Economic Peace and Strike , 1973, p. 356.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Achenbach , Biedenkopf district
DATE OF DEATH 1945