Willy Drügemüller

Willy Drügemüller (* 18th May 1891 in Berlin , † 20th February 1965 ) was a German trade unionist , SPD - politicians and SED -Funktionär.

Life

Willy Drügemüller was born the son of a master carpenter and innkeeper. After graduating from primary school in 1905, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer at a Berlin company, then attended the college for bricklaying, carpentry and roofing until 1908 and then worked as a construction technician. His professional activity took him to Belgium , Austria , Hungary , Dalmatia , Romania and Switzerland, among others . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , initially as an interpreter and later as a pioneer .

Drügemüller joined the SPD in 1910 and worked as party secretary for the Beeskow-Storkow district from January 1920 to 1922 . At the same time he acted as chairman of the SPD sub-district Teltow-Beeskow. From November 1922 to 1933 he was managing director and chairman of the branch in Berlin for the German construction trade association, which he had also joined. Drügemüller was a city councilor and councilor in Beeskow in 1924, a member of the district assembly and the district committee of the Beeskow district from 1924 to 1933, a member of the Brandenburg provincial parliament from 1921 to 1925 and a member of the Prussian parliament from February 1924 to 1933 . In addition to his political functions, he was a member of the Reich Research Society for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing since 1928 and a deputy member of the board of the Reich Institute for Employment and Unemployment Insurance . In 1932 he became a member of the auditing association of non-profit building cooperatives

After the National Socialists came to power, Drügemüller had to resign from his political offices and give up his profession. He was arrested on June 6, 1933, taken to the prison of the Königs Wusterhausen district court , and transferred to Oranienburg concentration camp on June 27 . He was later taken to the Blumberg sub-camp, but then came back to Oranienburg and was released on December 21, 1933, after being detained again in the district court prison. Drügemüller was placed under police supervision until April 1934. In the following years he acquired a grain and animal feed business in Driesen , which he ran as an independent businessman until 1945. In the course of the assassination attempt on Hitler , he was imprisoned for about a week at the end of August 1944.

Drügemüller moved back to Beeskow in June 1945 and became director of the district cooperative there. In March 1946 he entered the administrative service and got a job as chief clerk for agriculture at the district office. He became politically active again, became chairman of the SPD in the Beeskow-Storkow district and served as district administrator for the Osthavelland district from August 1946 until he was recalled at the end of 1948 . He was accused of supporting local mayors who were less loyal to the line in their work and assessment. After the forced union of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , he became a member of the SED district executive in Bernau near Berlin . With the loss of the district office, he became managing director of a municipal business enterprise. In June 1951 he left the GDR , moved to West Berlin and settled in Berlin-Neukölln .

literature

• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 318.

Web links

• Biography of Willy Drügemüller . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Page no longer available , search in web archives: Willy Drügemüller at the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation