Wilhelm Wolf (politician, 1899)

Wilhelm Wolf (born September 30, 1899 in Styrum , † May 14, 1948 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Wolf attended elementary school and high school. As a result of the economic collapse after the First World War and hyperinflation , he worked for several years as a miner and gang worker. He devoted himself to economic studies and received his doctorate in 1930 . In 1931 he was given the legal position of the middle class company in Marl . Due to constant harassment by the NSDAP , he had to leave his position in 1935. He managed a new livelihood as managing director of Kreishandwerkerschaft Zauch-Belzig to find. He gave up this position in 1938 after marrying Erika Wolf (1912-2003) and made to be a businessman in the textile industry independently .

With the end of the Second World War began his political activity. In 1945 he and his wife co-founded the CDU Brandenburg , and from October 1945 until his death in May 1948 he was its state chairman. After the party was founded, he and others stood up for political cooperation with the KPD and SPD. In the first issue of the Märkische Union newspaper , which appeared in the state of Brandenburg at the beginning of February 1948, he called for the cooperation of all forces in the struggle for the unity of Germany and claimed that all measures taken by the bloc parties in the eastern zone served the goal of an all-German fatherland. Shortly before his death, at the state party congress from May 7 to 9, 1948, he openly spoke out against the SED's striving for totality , in favor of free elections and cooperation with the Western CDU.

From July 1946 he was a member of the Advisory Assembly of Brandenburg for the CDU , where he was elected first deputy chairman. In the semi-free state elections in 1946 , Wolf was elected to the state parliament and became vice president there. Until his death he was also a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet occupation zone .

In 1948 he had an accident in a car under unknown circumstances. Contemporary observers discussed the issue of Wolf's murder.

literature

• Michael Richter : Die Ost-CDU 1948–1952 between resistance and conformity , 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0916-9 , pages 81–82 (on the rumors of his death)

Web links

• Party history of the CDU Brandenburg - Wilhelm Wolf at www.brandenburg-cdu.de (accessed on July 2, 2018).

See also

• List of members of the Brandenburg State Parliament (1946–1952, 1st electoral period)
• List of the members of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the death of Dr. Wilhelm Wolf . In: Neue Zeit , May 15, 1948, p. 2.
2. ↑ Cf. Manfred Wilde : The SBZ-CDU 1945-1947. Between the end of the war and the cold war, Munich 1998, p. 149, footnote 14.
3. ^ Neue Zeit , February 4, 1948, p. 2