Winfried von Wedel-Parlow

Winfried Wedigo Max von Wedel-Parlow (born May 19, 1918 in Berlin , † December 4, 1977 in Wiefelstede ) was a German local politician.

Life

Winfried von Wedel- Parlow was a son of the district court director Willibald von Wedel-Parlow (* 1875 Schönaich near Sorau; † 1945 Berlin) and Lilly Huebner (1875-1949). The Reichstag member Karl von Wedel-Parlow (1873-1936) was his uncle, the journalist Emil von Wedel-Parlow (1833-1896) his grandfather and the Angermünder district administrator Albert Otto von Wedel-Parlow (1793-1866) his great-grandfather.

After graduating from the Lilienthal High School in Berlin-Lichterfelde , completing the Reich Labor Service and brief commercial activity, he took part in World War II between 1940 and 1945 . Between 1942 and 1945 he was part of the German liaison command with the Royal Romanian II Army Corps, where he led 500 men back to a new main battle line as a corporal in November 1942, for which he was awarded the Romanian order of bravery "Virtute militara".

From 1946 he was department head for youth issues in the regional association of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany and between 1946 and 1948 for the LDP he was a member of the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . As one of two representatives of the LDP parliamentary group, he supported the application for licensing of the combat group against inhumanity initiated by Rainer Hildebrandt . Since leaving the party in 1949, he has been a librarian, boarding school and private tutor. a. in Honneroth , Dierdorf , Rüdenhausen and Tambach . He is the author of numerous unpublished poems.

In a childless marriage he was married to Margarethe von Wedel-Parlow, born in 1957. Thalmann (1918-1991). His wife has been running the "old pharmacy" in Wiefelstede since 1964. The couple bequeathed their common house in Wiefelstede to the community on the condition that a local museum be set up there. The Wiefelstede local history museum was opened in 1994.

plant

• Change to a star. Willy H. Klemz, Berlin 1948.

literature

• Kai-Uwe Merz: Cold War as anti-communist resistance. The Combat Group Against Inhumanity 1948–1959. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54371-7 .
• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 (331 pages).