Willi Weyer
Willi Weyer (born February 16, 1917 in Hagen ; † August 25, 1987 in Juist ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and a sports official .
Weyer was Minister for Reconstruction in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1954 to 1956, Minister of Finance from 1956 to 1958, Minister of the Interior from 1962 to 1975 and Deputy Prime Minister from 1956 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1975. From 1974 to 1986 he was President of the German Sports Association .
education and profession
After graduating from high school , Weyer studied law in Bonn , Jena and Munich , which he completed after completing his legal clerkship in Hagen in 1940 with both state examinations . Until 1942 he was an assistant at the National Socialist Academy for German Law under Hans Frank , then until 1945 in the war, most recently as an anti-aircraft officer .
Until his death, Weyer was also chairman of the board of directors of Bavaria Film GmbH.
family
Weyer's grandfather and father were already involved in the liberal sense: the grandfather as a liberal and supporter of Eugen Richter , the father Wilhelm was a member of the city council in Hagen for the DDP during the Weimar Republic . Weyer was married and had three children.
Party activities
Weyer was a member of the NSDAP from 1937 to 1945 (membership number 4,971,711 according to the Federal Archives in Berlin-Lichterfelde). After the end of the Second World War he joined the FDP and was involved with the young democrats , whose state chairmanship he took over in 1946. In 1950 he became deputy state chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP , from 1956 to 1972 he was at the head of the state association. At the beginning of 1956, Weyer, along with Wolfgang Döring and Walter Scheel, belonged to the so-called Young Turks who initiated the change of coalition of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia from the CDU to the SPD and thus provoked the split of the Euler Group and the founding of the short-lived Free People's Party (FVP) . From 1963 to 1967 Weyer was deputy federal chairman of the FDP and from 1954 to 1972 a member of the FDP federal executive committee .
MP
Weyer was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1950 to 1975 .
From 1953 to September 17, 1954, Weyer was also a member of the German Bundestag .
Public offices
On July 27, 1954, Weyer was appointed Minister for Reconstruction to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia headed by Prime Minister Karl Arnold (CDU). After Fritz Steinhoff (SPD) had been elected as the new Prime Minister via a constructive vote of no confidence with the votes of the FDP MPs, Weyer was appointed Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister on February 28, 1956. When the CDU won an absolute majority in the subsequent state elections in 1958 , Weyer resigned from the state government on July 24, 1958.
In his function as finance minister, he forbade the North Rhine-Westphalian tax offices to collect Berlin claims from denazification proceedings. This measure protected politically incriminated people from the Nazi era from the execution of fines imposed by the West Berlin arbitration chamber proceedings , which were much more stringent under Allied supervision, in the course of denazification .
After the state elections in 1962, Prime Minister Franz Meyers again formed a coalition of CDU and FDP and Weyer was appointed Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister on July 26, 1962.
On December 1, 1966, Meyers dismissed the two FDP ministers Weyer and Gerhard Kienbaum in order to negotiate a grand coalition based on the Bonn model with the SPD . Instead, however, the SPD entered into a coalition with the FDP and on December 8, 1966, elected Heinz Kühn as Prime Minister. Weyer was therefore appointed Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister again on December 8, 1966. After the state election in 1975, Weyer resigned from the state government on June 4, 1975.
During his time as Minister of the Interior, Weyer enforced the first-time inclusion of traffic news in the WDR radio program and set up the first guards for the motorway police.
Sports
From 1957 until his death, Weyer was President of the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1972 he was a member of the organizing committee for the Summer Olympics in Munich . From 1974 to 1986 Weyer was President of the German Sports Federation (DSB), after he was defeated by the President of the German Gymnastics Federation against Wilhelm Kregel in the 1970 presidential election . He succeeded in having the grant rules of the Federal Ministry of the Interior changed, whereby the DSB's own funds were recognized for its own interests. He initially benefited from this himself (company car as before as a minister, personal advisor, own office in Hagen, etc.), but in this way he created greater autonomy for the DSB. As a sports official, in contrast to NOK President Willi Daume , he campaigned for the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow .
Honors
In 1964, Weyer was awarded the Dieselring , which is awarded by the Verband der Motorjournalisten eV (VdM) to people who have made special contributions to "increasing road safety and reducing the consequences of accidents".
In 1965 he received the Wolfgang Döring Medal of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia .
On June 30, 1973, Weyer was awarded an honorary doctorate from the German Sport University in Cologne . In the same year he received the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.
On September 18, 1986, Weyer was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the sports plaque of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .
According to Weyer, the "Willi-Weyer-Sportschule" of the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia in Hachen , the "Willi-Weyer Academy" of the German Sports Association in Berlin , the "Willi-Weyer-Bad" in Hagen and streets in various places in North Rhine-Westphalia are Westphalia named. The Association of Liberal Local Politicians in North Rhine-Westphalia awards a Willi Weyer Prize.
In 2008 Willi Weyer was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .
Weyer's estate is kept in the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland Department in Duisburg , where it forms part RWN 0251.
Literature and Sources
- Karl Fischer: Willi Weyer. In: Walter Först (Ed.): From thirty years. Rhenish-Westphalian portraits of politicians. Cologne / Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-7745-6433-7 , pp. 314-325.
- The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1966 to 1970 (sixth electoral period) ( Publications of the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia , 8), ed. by Christoph Nonn , Wilfried Reininghaus and Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen, included. u. edit by Andreas Pilger, Siegburg 2006, ISBN 3-87710-361-8 .
- The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1970 to 1975 (seventh electoral period) ( Publications of the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia , 27), ed. by Frank Michael Bischoff , Christoph Nonn and Wilfried Reininghaus. u. edit by Martin Schlemmer, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-9805419-7-8 .
See also
- Cabinet Arnold III - Cabinet Steinhoff - Cabinet Meyers II - Cabinet Kühn I - Cabinet Kühn II
- List of former NSDAP members who were politically active after May 1945
Web links
- Literature by and about Willi Weyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature and pictures by and about Willi Weyer on www.weyer.de.com
- Portrait on the homepage of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Portrait, dates and biography of Willi Weyer in the Hall of Fame of German Sports
Footnotes
- ↑ Dr. WK: Willy Weyer - Most chances. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 12, 1967.
- ^ Willi Weyer at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
- ↑ Ulrich Herbert : Best. Biographical studies on radicalism, worldview and reason. 1903-1989. 3rd edition, Dietz, Bonn 1996, p. 490.
- ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Torch bearer, Hanover 1975, ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 111, June 16, 1973.
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
Gustav Altenhain (1947) | Friedrich Middelhauve (1947–1956) | Willi Weyer (1956–1972) | Horst-Ludwig Riemer (1972–1979) | Burkhard Hirsch (1979–1983) | Jürgen Möllemann (1983–1994) | Joachim Schultz-Tornau (1994–1996) | Jürgen Möllemann (1996–2002) | Andreas Pinkwart (2002–2010) | Daniel Bahr (2010–2012) | Christian Lindner (2012–2017) | Joachim Stamp (since 2017)
Walter Menzel (1947–1950) | Karl Arnold (1950) | Adolf Flecken (1950–1952) | Franz Meyers (1952–1956) | Hubert Biernat (1956–1958) | Josef Hermann Dufhues (1958–1962) | Willi Weyer (1962–1975) | Burkhard Hirsch (1975–1980) | Herbert Schnoor (1980-1995) | Franz-Josef Kniola (1995–1998) | Fritz Behrens (1998-2005) | Ingo Wolf (2005–2010) | Ralf Jäger (2010–2017) | Herbert Reul (2017–)
Franz Blücher (1946–1947) | Heinrich Weitz (1947–1952) | Adolf Flecken (1952–1956) | Willi Weyer (1956–1958) | Artur Sträter (1958–1960) | Joseph Pütz (1960–1966) | Hans Wertz (1966–1975) | Friedrich Halstenberg (1975–1978) | Diether Posser (1978–1988) | Heinz Schleusser (1988–2000) | Peer Steinbrück (2000–2002) | Jochen Dieckmann (2002–2005) | Helmut Linssen (2005–2010) | Norbert Walter-Borjans (2010–2017) | Lutz Lienenkämper (2017–)
Hugo Paul (1946–1948) | Ernst Gnoss (1948–1949) | Fritz Steinhoff (1949–1950) | Otto Schmidt (1950–1953) | Willi Weyer (1954–1956) | Fritz Kaßmann (1956–1958) | Peter Erkens (1958–1962) | Joseph Blank (1962–1963) | Joseph Paul Franken (1963–1966) | Franz Berding (1966) | Hermann Kohlhase (1966–1970) | Christoph Zöpel (1980–1990) | Ilse Brusis (1990-1995) | Michael Vesper (1995-2005) | Oliver Wittke (2005-2009) | Lutz Lienenkämper (2009–2010) | Harry Voigtsberger (2010–2012) | Michael Groschek (2012–2017) | Ina Scharrenbach (since 2017)
Friedrich Middelhauve (1946–1954) | Reinhard legs (1954–1955) | Hermann Kohlhase (1955–1956) | Wolfgang Döring (1956–1958) | Willi Weyer (1958–1962) | Walter Möller (1962–1969) | Heinz Lange (1969–1970) | Hans Koch (1970–1979) | Wolfgang Heinz (1980) | Achim Rohde (1985–1995) | Jürgen Möllemann (2000–2002) | Ingo Wolf (2002–2005) | Gerhard Papke (2005–2012) | Christian Lindner (2012–2017) | Christof Rasche (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weyer, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, sports official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1987 |
| Place of death | Juist |