Willy Wendt

This article deals with the resistance fighter Willy Wendt. For the garden designer, see Willi Wendt .

Willy Wendt (born July 13, 1906 in Linden ; † February 5, 1967 in Hanover ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism in the Socialist Front and a Lower Saxony politician of the SPD .

Life

From 1912 to 1920 Willy Wendt attended elementary school in his hometown and then until 1923 an advanced training school. Professionally, he worked as an office clerk, wage clerk, bottler and warehouse clerk.

In 1930 Wendt became a member of the SPD. Even after the SPD was banned in 1933, he took part in illegal party work and became active in the resistance organization Socialist Front. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo , and his position in the resistance was then taken over by Wilhelm Bluhm .

Wendt was sentenced to five years in prison on July 24, 1935 for alleged preparation for high treason by continuing the activities of the SPD. After his release from prison he worked as a lathe operator from 1940 to 1943. In February 1943, despite the verdict that declared him unworthy of defense, he was recruited by the Wehrmacht and drafted into the 999 “probation unit” . After being wounded and subsequently staying in a hospital shortly before the end of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in December 1945.

From July 1946 he was deputy chairman of the SPD local association in Hanover. He was a member of the appointed Hanover State Parliament from August 23, 1946 to October 29, 1946 and a member of the appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament from December 9, 1946 to March 28, 1947.

Honors

• The city of Hanover honors the resistance fighter with the Willy-Wendt-Weg, which was laid out in 1989 in the Mühlenberg district .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 403.
• Bernd Rabe : The "Socialist Front". Social Democrats against Fascism 1933-1936 , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-7716-2309-X
• Karin Theilen (arr.): Socialist sheets. The organ of the "Socialist Front" in Hanover 1933-1936 , in the series of publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 197, Hanover: Hahn, 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5813-2
• Klaus Mlynek : WENDT, Willy. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 383f.
• Klaus Mlynek: Wendt, Willy. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 670f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Willy-Wendt-Weg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 268