Willy Rieckhoff

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Willy Martin Eugen Rieckhoff (born November 18, 1900 in Hamburg ; † January 8, 1973 there ) was a German politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD .

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Rieckhoff completed an insurance apprenticeship after elementary school and attended evening school, where he obtained his secondary school leaving certificate. He was employed by an insurance company until 1923 and then carried out various activities. From 1926 he worked, with interruptions from 1939 to 1945 through participation in the Second World War , at Hamburger Hochbahn AG, most recently as a department head.

Rieckhoff had already joined the SPD before 1933, to which he belonged again after 1945. His political home was the SPD district of Hamburg-Nord , the second largest of the seven Hamburg SPD districts, to which around 10,000 members belonged at the time. Rieckhoff's party offices included district delegate, state delegate and chairman of the district, as the local associations of the SPD are called in Hamburg, Groß Borstel . From 1954 to 1956 he served as chairman of the SPD district north and as a representative of the district a member of the state board, having previously been a member of the district board as a representative of the company organization since 1953. His predecessor as district chairman was Willi Berkhan , and his successor was Helmut Schmidt, a member of the Bundestag at the time . Helmuth Kern was responsible for the district's propaganda at this time . From 1957 to 1970 Willy Rieckhoff worked as an elected member of the Hamburg parliament. He was also a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly from 1957 until his death in 1973 , after having been an elected citizen of the Eppendorf-Winterhude building inspection committee since 1951. In 1965 he was elected to succeed Max Raloff as chairman of the district assembly. He held this office until his death in January 1973. The district assembly elected his party colleague Ursula Preuhs as his successor .

literature

  • Jörn Westendorf: Annual Report 1976/77 , Ed .: SPD District Hamburg-Nord
  • Günter Pumm : Candidate selection and intra-party democracy in the Hamburg SPD , Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas 1977, ISBN 3-261-02366-X
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 16th edition. Arani, Berlin 1970, pp. 1045-1046.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christel Oldenburg , Tradition and Modernity - The Hamburg SPD from 1950 to 1966 , Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2009, also in 2008 dissertation at the University of Hamburg , ISBN 978-3-8258-1970-5 , page 679 f.
  2. ^ "Elected chairman without dissenting votes" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of December 17, 1965, accessed on October 21, 1965.
  3. ^ "Willy Rieckhoff died" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of January 9, 1973, accessed on October 21, 2018.
  4. ^ "In the north, a woman 'rules' now" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt dated February 9, 1973, accessed on October 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rieckhoff, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieckhoff, Willy Martin Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1973
Place of death Hamburg