Willi Zinnkann
Willi Zinnkann (born October 27, 1915 in Worms , † October 23, 1997 in Büdingen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
Zinnkann was born as the son of the politician and later Hesse State Minister Heinrich Zinnkann in Worms on the Rhine. He spent his childhood and youth there until his family moved to Darmstadt in 1929. He attended the advanced school in Bensheim , a secondary school, especially for students from grade 7 who came to the school as a driving learner. After the Bensheim school was closed, he continued his education at the advanced school in Friedberg (Hesse) from 1930 and passed his Abitur there in 1935. Afterwards he actually wanted to study law, but in 1936 he did Reich labor and military servicedrafted, towards the end of 1939 for military service in the Second World War , where he started his career as an officer.
Zinnkann was released from American captivity in December 1945. In Passau from January to April 1946 he took on the duties of border commissioner for refugees. In 1946 Zinnkann became district refugee commissioner in the Büdingen district and in 1948 district housing commissioner for the district, where he was responsible for the accommodation and care of the displaced persons .
Political party
Zinnkann was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) from 1929 to 1933 and at times chairman of the SAJ in Darmstadt. In 1945 he joined the SPD.
MP
Zinnkann was a council member of the city of Büdingen since 1952. He was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1950 to 1970 and was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there from March 30, 1960 to October 17, 1961.
Public offices
Zinnkann was mayor of Büdingen from 1962 to 1976.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class , 1971
- Honorary citizenship of the city of Büdingen, 1985
- Name of the Willi-Zinnkann-Halle in Büdingen
Web links
- Note to the SPD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament ( memorial from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data of Willi Zinnkann in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1580, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
Rudolf Freidhof (1946–1947) | Albert Wagner (1947–1949) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1949–1953) | Heinrich Schneider (1953–1955) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1955–1958) | Georg Buch (1958–1960) | Willi Zinnkann (1960–1961) | Rudi Arndt (1961–1964) | Johannes Strelitz (1964–1967) | Erwin Lang (1967–1969) | Werner Best (1969–1970) | Heribert Reitz (1970–1972) | Hans Krollmann (1972–1973) | Willi Görlach (1973–1974) | Armin Clauss (1974-1976) | Karl Schneider (1976–1980) | Horst Winterstein (1980–1984) | Ernst Welteke (1984–1987) | Hans Krollmann (1987–1988) | Ernst Welteke (1988–1991) | Lothar Klemm (1991–1994) | Armin Clauss (1994-2001) | Gerhard Bökel (2001–2003) | Jürgen Walter (2003–2007) | Andrea Ypsilanti (2007-2009) | Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (2009–2019) | Nancy Faeser (since 2019)
Max Scheingraber | Emil Diemer | Willi Zinnkann | Roland Manz | Eberhard Bauner | Bernd Luft | Erich Spamer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tin can, Willi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zinnkann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worms |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1997 |
| Place of death | Büdingen |