Willi Huebner

Willi Hübner (born April 20, 1896 in Rixdorf near Berlin , † December 4, 1979 in Berlin) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Willi Hübner was the son of an employee of the health insurance company and attended a secondary school . He did an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk, until 1909 he also worked as a commercial clerk. He then became a seaman until he was a soldier for four years because of the First World War . In 1919 he joined the SPD and became an employee of the German Agricultural Workers' Association (DLV). After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists and the subsequent smashing of the trade unions, Huebner went illegally in Berlin-Köpenick and Kiel , and until 1939 he ran a poultry farm. With the beginning of the Second World War , he was initially a civilian employee of the III. Army Corps , but in 1940 he was drafted into the Navy .

After the war, from 1945 to 1948, Hübner was a consultant at the Central Administration for Agriculture and Forestry in the Soviet Zone of Occupation . In the first Berlin election in 1946 , he was elected to the district assembly in the Köpenick district. In the same year he became chairman of the central board of the IG Agriculture and Forestry of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and a member of the FDGB federal board. In 1948 he resigned from both positions and in 1949 switched to the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO). In 1949, Hübner became an employee of the Kreuzberg district office . Since Bruno Grüttner (1896–1981) had resigned from the city council of Greater Berlin , Huebner moved to parliament in April 1950. In the following legislative period , he was able to move up to Parliament in March 1951 for Wilhelm Birnbaum (1895–1980). In March 1957 he left the Berlin House of Representatives .

Huebner was the chairman of the main works council of the Senate of Berlin .

literature

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 131 (331 pages).