Willy Bartsch

This article deals with the politician Willy Bartsch. For other people see Wilhelm Bartsch .

Willy Bartsch (born March 24, 1905 in Bielau , † June 9, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After attending primary school, Bartsch completed an apprenticeship as a painter and varnisher. He later organized himself into the union work of the Association of Painters and Varnishers . With a scholarship from the General German Trade Union Federation , he studied at the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main in 1929/30 . Since 1931 he worked full-time in the painter association and both its youth association leader and deputy editor of the union newspaper painter . After the National Socialists smashed the trade unions in 1933, he was released and temporarily imprisoned. From 1934 he worked again in the profession he had learned. In 1940 he was drafted into military service in World War II and was taken prisoner in France during the course of the war, from which he was released in 1947. Since 1962 he worked as an administrative clerk in the Wedding district .

Bartsch was married to Erna, nee Langer, and had one child.

politics

Bartsch had been a member of the SPD since 1923 and from 1948 to 1961 the party's political district secretary in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg . From 1950 to 1963 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . As a Berlin member of parliament , he was a member of the German Bundestag from October 23, 1963, when he replaced the late member of parliament Günter Klein until 1972.

Honors

• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 39.
• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 64 (331 pages).

Web links

• SPD Helmholtzplatz - Willy Bartsch
• Remembrance days of the Berlin SPD 2005 (accessed: February 23, 2009)
• Bartsch (Berlin), Willy . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 56–57 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).