Wilhelm Wimmer (editor)

Wilhelm Wimmer (born May 18, 1899 in Essen-Dellwig , † May 13, 1953 in Essen ) was a German businessman, editor , publisher and founder of Borbecker Nachrichten , union secretary and politician.

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Born in 1899 as the son of a miner, Wilhelm Wimmer attended elementary school and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in a grocery store. Wimmer participated in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. After returning from the war, he began working in coal mining at the Christian Levin colliery . He also attended courses at the city evening school.

The union leader Heinrich Imbusch won Wimmer as an employee in the union of Christian miners . He then trained to be a trade union secretary. He also worked in the Silesian mountain area.

In 1924 he began working as an editor for newspapers in Werne and Lüdinghausen . His son Walter Wimmer was born in Lüdinghausen in 1926 and , together with his brother Franz-Josef, took over the Borbecker Nachrichten, which his father later founded. From 1927 Wilhelm Wimmer worked as an editor for Essen- Borbecker Lokalanzeiger. In 1932 he returned to grocery retailing as a businessman.

In 1945 he was one of the founders of the CDU in Essen-Borbeck-Dellwig. As a result, he was chairman of the Essen-Borbeck citizens' committee between 1946 and 1952.

In April 1949 the Borbecker Nachrichten , which he had founded and which he brought out as a local weekly newspaper at the initiative of his son Walter , appeared for the first time . After his death in 1953, the sons took over the paper, which at times became the local weekly newspaper with the highest circulation in Germany.

Wilhelm Wimmer was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Essen-Dellwig.

literature

• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Ed .: City of Essen, Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen. Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 368 .