Willy Grossmann

Willy Grossmann

Hermann Reinhold Wilhelm Großmann (born April 26, 1888 in Berlin ; † January 9, 1963 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

After his apprenticeship, Willy Großmann worked as a machine fitter at the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin. From 1906 he was a member of the German Metal Workers' Association , in 1908 he also joined the SPD. During the First World War he was not drafted because metal workers were needed for armament . Großmann's union and political activities led to his first arrest, and his exemption from military service was lifted. During the war he joined the USPD .

In 1919, Großmann was elected to the Neukölln city ​​council, and he was also a member of the Neukölln district assembly in the Groß Berlin law passed in 1920 . In 1922 he returned to the SPD. From 1923 to 1925 and 1928 to 1929 he was a member of the Berlin city council . Großmann was the head of the Neukölln district assembly from 1928 to 1930. During the Nazi era he worked as a locksmith and was arrested several times.

After the liberation , Großmann turned back to political work. From 1946 to 1959 he was head of the Neukölln district council assembly . On his 70th birthday he was honored as the city ​​elder of Berlin . In the Berlin election in 1958 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives.

Honorary grave of Willy Großmann

Großmann received an honorary grave from the State of Berlin in the Neukölln Park Cemetery .

literature

• 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. 108 (331 pages).
• Ditmar Staffelt : The Reconstruction of Berlin Social Democracy 1945/46 and the Unity Question - a contribution to the post-war history of the lower and middle organizational structures of the SPD , Verlag Peter Lang 1986, ISBN 978-3-8204-9176-0 , p. 429.
• Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members Persecuted During National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , pp. 205 f.