Willy Hitter

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Andreas Philipp Wilhelm "Willy" Hitter (born October 13, 1905 in Finthen , † December 2, 1966 in Hechtsheim ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending primary school in Finthen, Hitter completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1920 to 1923. When he started his apprenticeship, he joined the union, for which he worked as a functionary until 1933. In 1920 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and in 1924 the SPD. Hitter was unemployed from 1931 to 1934 and was briefly taken into " protective custody " after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 . After the dissolution of the trade unions, he was a member of the German Labor Front from 1933 to 1945 and a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare from 1938 to 1945 . From 1934 to 1939 he worked as a locksmith at Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim am Main . During the Second World War , from 1939 to 1945 he was commissioned as a controller at the Arado aircraft factory in Brandenburg an der Havel .

After 1945, Hitter worked as a government employee. He became involved again in the trade union movement, became a full-time secretary of IG Metall in 1949 and was district chairman of the DGB from 1950 to 1952 . Due to his membership in Nazi organizations at the time, he had to answer in a panel of judgments. The Neustadt Central Ruling Chamber came to the conclusion on March 4, 1946, to keep him in government service. An investigative committee of the Mainz district found on January 16, 1948 that he was “not affected by the law”.

In 1945, Hitter was appointed acting mayor of Hechtsheim by the Allied military administration. In the same year he was elected to the district executive committee of the SPD Rheinhessen. From 1946 to 1948 he was district chairman and from 1949 to 1966 deputy district chairman of the SPD Rheinhessen. From 1946 he was councilor of the community of Hechtsheim and a member of the district council and the district committee in the district of Mainz . In the state elections in 1951 , 1955 and 1959 he was elected as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, of which he was a member until 1963. In the state parliament he was a member of the Legal and Rules Committee from 1951 to 1955 and a member of the Economic and Reconstruction Committee from 1951 to 1963.

honors and awards

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 303.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Yearbook of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1966/67. Vorwärts, Bonn 1968, p. 260.
personal data
SURNAME Hitter, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitter, Andreas Philipp Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Finthen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1966
Place of death Hechtsheim