Willibald Martenstein

Willibald Martenstein (born August 2, 1903 in Worms ; † January 9, 1998 there ) was a German teacher and politician ( FDP ).

Life

After attending secondary school, Martenstein first completed a commercial apprenticeship in industry. He then took up studies at the University of Frankfurt and the Mannheim University of Commerce , which he completed with an examination as a business graduate and business teacher. He entered the school service in 1926 and initially worked as a vocational school teacher at the municipal business school in Worms. From 1936 until his injury-related retirement in 1938, he did voluntary military service in the Wehrmacht . He then resumed his professional activity. From 1938 to 1939 he worked at the commercial vocational school in Oppenheim and then switched to the commercial vocational school in Worms, where he was promoted to commercial student council in 1941. From 1944 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War . Most recently he was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946.

In the 1920s, Martenstein was a member of the DDP and a member of the Reich League of German Young Democrats . In 1933 he joined the National Socialist People's Welfare and joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association . From 1933 to 1936 he was a member of the SA . In 1937 he applied for admission to the NSDAP , which he was refused because of his membership in the lodge and his contacts with the International Peace Society. From 1940 to 1944 he was a member of the NSDAP.

After his release from captivity, Martenstein had to take part in a court proceedings . The Neustadt Central Judicial Chamber decided on May 23, 1946, to downgrade his salary and ordered a 2-year ban on advancement. In the following time worked again as a teacher at the commercial vocational school in Worms, most recently as director.

Martenstein joined the Democratic Party (DP) in 1946, which shortly thereafter became part of the Rhineland-Palatinate FDP . In 1947 he was elected chairman of the city and district association of the FDP Worms. From 1950 to 1951 he was chairman of the FDP district association Rheinhessen. He was a member of the city council of Worms, from 1948 to 1952 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

In the state elections in 1951 , Martenstein was elected for the first time as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he belonged without interruption until 1967. He was always drawn into the state parliament via the state list of the FDP. In Parliament he was a member of the interim committee from 1951 to 1957, from 1951 to 1967 a member of the cultural policy committee and from 1963 to 1967 a member of the social policy committee. From December 1951 to September 1953 and from June 1958 to May 1967 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. In the federal election in September 1953 , he ran unsuccessfully for the Bundestag .

Awards

• 1963: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: the members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 446 .
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 14th edition. Arani, Berlin 1962, p. 968.
• Martenstein, Willibald . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Maack bis Muuss] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 791 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 375 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).