Willy Heller

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Willy Heller (born August 23, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 24, 1981 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament .

Life

Heller, a telecommunications engineer by profession, co-founded the Windthorstbund in Frankfurt am Main in 1919 and joined the Christian Metalworkers' Association in the same year. He was the managing director of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany in Cottbus .

After the Second World War he became a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1945. He was appointed head of the Office for Trade and Supply in Cottbus and was a city councilor in Cottbus from 1946 to 1950. At the same time he was from 1946 to March 1950 chairman of the CDU district association Cottbus. From April 1946 (1st state party convention) to May 1947 he was deputy chairman, then until May 1948 a member of the CDU state committee in Brandenburg . From October 1946 to March 1950 he was a member of the CDU parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament. From 1948 he acted as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group (successor to Gerhard Schütze, who was elected vice-president ). From 1948 to 1950 he was Ministerial Director of the Transport Department in the Ministry of Economic Planning and Economics in Brandenburg.

In March 1952 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany , but encountered established structures in Essen and was rejected as an intruder by the CDU executive committee there. At the 2nd party congress of the CDU in exile in October 1951 in Koenigswinter , he was elected spokesman for the Brandenburg State Association and was thus a member of the newly elected main board. He was a member of the main board of the CDU in exile until 1977. He was also chairman of the DAG Essen.

literature

  • Martin Broszat and Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945 - 1949 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 926.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Richter : Die Ost-CDU 1948 - 1952. Between resistance and conformity , Droste Verlag, 1990 Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-7700-0899-5 , p. 410.
  2. ↑ Willy Heller in the central database of bequests in the Federal Archives (accessed on April 20, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU of the GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1981