Wilhelm Weber (politician, 1876)

Wilhelm Weber (born February 4, 1876 in Ober-Roden , † October 5, 1959 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German politician . He was a member of the state parliament in Hesse and from 1931 to 1933 in the German Reichstag .

Live and act

Wilhelm Weber was the son of the factory worker Wilhelm Weber and his wife Barbara, née Deller. He was married to Eva, née Eyßen. Weber attended elementary school in Ober-Roden from 1882 to 1890 . He then did an apprenticeship as a metal grinder until 1892 . After he went hiking after his apprenticeship , he joined the SPD in 1896 and joined the military in the same year. After his return in 1898 he worked as a metal worker until 1907. From November 1907 to 1920 he was managing director of the metal workers' association in Offenbach am Main, only interrupted by the First World War , in which he participated from 1914 to 1917. In 1914 he was a board member of the SPD and at the same time chairman of the administrative commission of the people's welfare in Offenbach. During this time he was also a city councilor in Offenbach from 1913 to 1919.

From November 1918 Weber headed the military council in Offenbach's workers and soldiers' council. He formed an action committee against the Kapp Putsch in 1920, which organized a rally in Offenbach with 20,000 participants.

From 1920 to 1924 Weber was an employed auditor of the metal workers' association for the Reich territory and then until 1933 union secretary of the General German Trade Union Federation and chairman of the union cartel in Offenbach. During this time he was again city councilor in Offenbach from 1926 to 1930 and chairman of the SPD state executive in Hesse from 1927 to 1933 . From 1924 until his election to the Reichstag in 1931, he was a member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse . He was succeeded in the state parliament by August Lorenz . From January 2, 1931 to June 22, 1933 he was a member of the German Reichstag for constituency 33 (Hessen-Darmstadt).

In May 1933 Weber was taken into protective custody and taken to the Osthofen concentration camp . After his release, he was unemployed for seven years. It was not until 1941 that he found work again as a registrar in the Friedrich Hengst & Co. banking house. In the civil resistance network that his friend Wilhelm Leuschner secretly established, Weber was one of the group of people who, after the success of the military resistance, was intended to establish democratic structures in Offenbach and Hesse . He was arrested again as part of the Grid Action and held in Dachau concentration camp from September to October 1944 .

After the end of National Socialism, he was involved in rebuilding the unions in Offenbach and Hesse. From 1945 to 1949 he was chairman of the metalworking union in Offenbach and the union federation in the Offenbach district . With the establishment of the DGB at federal level, he became chairman of the DGB district committee in Offenbach in 1949 and held this function until 1952.

Wilhelm Weber died on October 5, 1959 after a stroke. The then mayor Georg Dietrich paid tribute to his life at his grave . He was completely fulfilled in work. Weber never tired of fighting for all those who are on the dark side of life.

Appreciations

A square in Offenbach am Main was named after him ( ⊙ ).50.085657 8.763315

literature

Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 263

Web links

Wilhelm Weber (Hessen) in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Wilhelm Weber . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Biography of Wilhelm Weber . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)

Individual evidence

^ The November Revolution of 1918 in Offenbach. In: spd-offenbach.de. Historical Commission of the SPD Offenbach am Main, November 24, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Wolfgang Reuter : Fighters for Reconstruction . In: Offenbach-Post . October 5, 2019, p. 17 ( online ).
^ Weber, Wilhelm. In: gedenkstaette-osthofen-rlp.de. April 30, 2013, accessed October 7, 2019.
^ Wilhelm Weber. Hessian biography (as of October 5, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 6, 2019 .
↑ Ilse Kollmann and Walter Fischer: Wilhelm Weber: role model, admonisher, signpost. (PDF; 75 kB) In: gedenkstaette-osthofen-rlp.de. 2014, p. 2 , accessed October 7, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ober-Roden
DATE OF DEATH	5th October 1959
Place of death	Offenbach am Main

[1] The November Revolution of 1918 in Offenbach. In: spd-offenbach.de. Historical Commission of the SPD Offenbach am Main, November 24, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2019 .

[op-2019-10-05-2] Wolfgang Reuter : Fighters for Reconstruction . In: Offenbach-Post . October 5, 2019, p. 17 ( online ).

[3] Weber, Wilhelm. In: gedenkstaette-osthofen-rlp.de. April 30, 2013, accessed October 7, 2019.

[4] Wilhelm Weber. Hessian biography (as of October 5, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 6, 2019 .

[5] Ilse Kollmann and Walter Fischer: Wilhelm Weber: role model, admonisher, signpost. (PDF; 75 kB) In: gedenkstaette-osthofen-rlp.de. 2014, p. 2 , accessed October 7, 2019 .