Wilhelm winemaker
Wilhelm Winzer (born February 3, 1878 in Bamenohl near Finnentrop , † March 19, 1957 in (West) Berlin ) was a German trade unionist, cooperative and social democratic politician.
Life
Wilhelm Winzer was the son of the baker, farmer and innkeeper Franz Winzer zu Bamenohl. He too did an apprenticeship as a baker before completing a commercial apprenticeship. In 1897 he had already joined the independent bakers' association. In 1903 he also became a member of the SPD. In 1905 Winzer became the manager of a large bakery. He was also a functionary of the Bakers and Confectioners Association in Hildesheim . In 1908 Winzer became a full-time functionary of the association and district manager for Silesia and Pomerania , based in Wroclaw . In 1912 he moved to the Vorwärts consumer association as managing director. In 1913 he was the organizer of the Wroclaw People's Welfare . During the First World War , Winzer was a soldier.
After the war he became a city councilor in Breslau and was the local chairman of the SPD until 1924. In 1929 Winzer was appointed Provincial Councilor of Lower Silesia .
Winzer had been a member of the Prussian Landtag since 1921 , to which he belonged until 1933. In 1932 and 1933 he was one of the group leaders.
After the beginning of the National Socialist rule , Winzer was released from his position as regional councilor and in May 1933 imprisoned for two weeks in the Breslau-Dürrgoy concentration camp . In August 1944 he was imprisoned again in a concentration camp. In February 1945, Winzer was sentenced to three years in prison for an alleged "failure to report a treasonable company".
In 1945 Winzer was expelled as a German from Silesia. He then worked in Berlin in the Central Administration for Resettlers (ZVU) of the SBZ as head of the organization department. In connection with the disputes over the unification of the SPD and KPD , Winzer went to West Berlin, where he was active as the SPD's organizational secretary against the forced unification of the SPD and KPD into the SED . In October 1946, Winzer became a paid district councilor for social affairs in Berlin-Tempelhof . In retirement from 1951 until his death he was a district councilor and chairman of the supervisory board of the Tempelhof consumer cooperative.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the ZVU at the Federal Archives ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Wilhelm winemaker . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Vol. 1, Hannover 1960, p. 336.
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 351.
Web links
- Biography of Wilhelm Winzer . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winemaker, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist, cooperative member, politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamenohl |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1957 |
| Place of death | Berlin |