Willy Michel (politician)

Willy Michel (* 24. October 1885 in Halle (Saale) , † 13. April 1951 in Minden ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Willy Michel graduated from elementary school and then worked for various newspapers. From 1931 to 1933 Willy Michel was secretary of the SPD sub-district of Minden. In 1933 he was after the seizure of power of the Nazis temporarily detained by the Gestapo , Michel was for the violence in Minden after the murder of Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau held responsible in the 1922nd From 1933 to 1941 he worked as an independent master hairdresser in Minden. In 1945 he worked as an accountant and clerk for an aircraft workshop in Minden (Minderheide?). From January to February 1945 Willy Michel was conscripted for the Volkssturm .

Political party

Willy Michel had been a member of the SPD in the Minden local association since 1907 and its chairman since 1908. Since 1919 he was party secretary of the SPD in the sub-district of Minden-Lübbecke. A few days after Minden was taken by Anglo-Canadian troops in April 1945, Willy Michel became executive chairman of the Social Democrats in Minden. After the Second World War he was sub-district chairman of the SPD in the Minden district .

MP

In 1919, Willy Michel was one of the first social democrats to become a member of the city ​​council of Minden, because the previous Prussian three-tier suffrage made it difficult for social democrats to win seats in parliaments during the empire. Michel remained a member of the Minden city parliament until 1922 and held leading positions in his parliamentary group. From 1919 to 1921 Michel was a member of the Prussian constituent assembly and from 1921 to 1933 for the SPD a member of the Prussian state parliament. After the Second World War, Willy Michel was from October 1946 to April 1947 a member of the first and second state parliaments of North Rhine-Westphalia , appointed by the British military government . From 1946 until his death he was a member of the district council of the Minden district.

Public offices

After his election by the district council, Willy Michel was appointed district administrator of the Minden district by the British military government on April 27, 1946. After the first district election, he was replaced in this office on October 23, 1946 by the CDU politician Heinrich Wehking . from 1948 until his death in 1951, he was again the district administrator of the Minden district, succeeding Heinrich Wehking.

literature

• Joachim Meynert and Ursula Bender-Wittmann (eds.): No patriotic journeymen . Contributions to the history of social democracy in Minden. Minden 1994.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , pp. 139f.

Web links

• Willy Michel at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia