William Willführ

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William Willführ (born August 22, 1881 in Hanover , † September 23, 1964 in Goslar ) was a German politician (CDU). He was a deputy in the parliament of Lower Saxony .

Life

"W. Willführ, purveyor to the court ”; Butcher's shop at the - then - address Sodenstrasse 3 at the corner of Celler Strasse;
with a Bödeker angel at the entrance; around 1900
Family grave with coat of arms at the Engesohde town cemetery ;
with William Willführ senior (April 7, 1852 - April 8, 1920) and Dorette, née Wiggers (February 4, 1857 - August 6, 1941)

Willführ graduated from the Herschel School in Hanover. Then he learned the butcher's trade and went on the journeyman and traveling years that took him to many cities at home and abroad. In 1915 he took over his father's business, which he expanded into an important company in the industry. He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933, but by 1937 at the latest he had resigned or been expelled.

During the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the company was completely destroyed on March 25, 1945, including its residential property.

In the post-war period , Willführer returned to his profession and held numerous offices in economic organizations and associations. He was a longstanding member of the supervisory board of Volksbank Hannover . In addition, he was the regional guild master of the Lower Saxony and Bremen butchers' trade. He was also a member of the Hanover City Council. In the third electoral term he was from 1955 to 1959 a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and its senior president.

Willführ was the holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class .

literature

  • Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): William Willführ, Hanover, Sodenstrasse 3 , in the latter : The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927 , P. 393
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 409.
  • Siegfried Schildmacher : In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through Hanover's streets , Hanover 2015, p. 148

Web links

Commons : William Willführ  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o. V .: Willführ, William in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 27, 2006, last accessed on March 27, 2020
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP (PDF; 1.8 MB), 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Willführ, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1964
Place of death Goslar