Willy Feller

Willy Feller (born November 12, 1905 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † July 9, 1979 there ) was a German journalist and politician of the Communist Party of Germany .

Life

After elementary school, Feller was a metalworker. From 1931 he was editor, later also editor-in-chief, at communist newspapers in Essen, Chemnitz, Dresden and Cologne. The National Socialists imprisoned him for two years for high treason. After his release he was unemployed and then worked as an insurance agent. During the Second World War he had to serve as a soldier in the penalty battalion 999 and later work for the Todt Organization . From June 1948 to 1950 he was editor-in-chief of the KPD newspaper Neues Leben . From the 1950s he was again active in the insurance industry. On December 22, 1972, he was honored with the Medal of Merit of the Federal Order of Merit .

politics

Feller became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany in 1920 . From 1945 to 1948 he was a member of the district leadership of the party in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1946 he became a member of the consultative state assembly in the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1947 to 1951 he was a member of the first Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . The Landtag elected him a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President in 1949 .

In the first state government under Wilhelm Boden in 1946/47 he was Minister for Reconstruction and Transport. He was Minister of Reconstruction in Peter Altmeier's cabinet in 1947/48. In 1952 he was released from all party offices. In 1961 he tried to run as an independent communist for the German Bundestag . Because of the ban on the KPD in 1956, the Frankenthal regional court sentenced him to eight months in prison on probation. In 1968 Feller joined the DKP .

literature

Feller, Willy . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. First volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 318.
Peter Ruf: Ludwigshafen deputy in the state parliament, Reichstag and Bundestag. Ludwigshafen 1993, ISBN 3-924667-20-9 .
City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (ed.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Volume 2: From the end of the First World War to the present. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7 .
Feller, Willy. In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Office of the Federal President
↑ Feller, Willy . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 296–297 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Feller, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH	July 9, 1979
Place of death	Ludwigshafen am Rhein

[1] Office of the Federal President

[2] Feller, Willy . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 296–297 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).