Willi Weber (politician)

Willi Weber (born June 15, 1914 in Kaiserswalde near Schluckenau , Böhmen; † May 3, 1975 in Gera ; actually Wilhelm Weber ) was a German local politician of the SED , from 1955 to 1957 Lord Mayor of Johanngeorgenstadt and from 1958 to 1962 Lord Mayor of Gera.

Career

The son of a cutler and a weaver became a member of the socialist working-class youth at the age of 14. He completed a commercial apprenticeship at the North Bohemian wood goods industry in Schluckenau , which he completed in 1932. Since he did not get any further employment, he then earned his living as a laborer in a felt factory until 1935. He then did his military service in the Czechoslovak army until 1937. He has been a member of the CCP since 1936 .

After the annexation of the Sudetenland to the German Reich, Weber was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939 and was corporal at the end of the war. From 1945 to 1950 he was a full-time party functionary of the KPD (after the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD in 1946, SED). Afterwards he worked at SDAG Wismut as a chopper , conveyor man , deputy pit manager and as party secretary. In July 1955 he became mayor of Johanngeorgenstadt in the Ore Mountains, which, because of its importance for the bismuth uranium ore mining, formed its own district from 1952 to 1957.

After the dissolution of the Johanngeorgenstadt district, Weber was elected Lord Mayor of Gera on December 30, 1958. During his tenure, Gera exceeded 100,000 inhabitants in 1959 and became a major city. On November 22nd, 1962 Weber was retired from the mayor's office and took over functions in the VEB Kombinat Keramische Werke Hermsdorf (KWH), including as chairman of the BGL .

literature

• Günter Domkowsky: Lord Mayor of the City of Gera . Publishing house Dr. Frank, Gera 2007. ISBN 978-3-934805-31-6
• Andreas Herbst :  Weber, Wilhelm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .