Weimer, August

Master painter, trade unionist, politician

Born: 27.06.1908 in Bingen

died: 20.01.1980 in Wiesbaden

Weimer joined the trade union in 1922 and the Center Party in 1928. In 1930, he became trade union secretary at the Central Association of Christian Painters in Breslau. Weimer had to give up this job after 1933. He passed his master craftsman's examination in 1936 and set up his own business. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939 and discharged in 1941 due to unfitness for service. Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, he was called up again and was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets shortly afterwards.

After his release in 1948, Weimer went to Hesse and joined the CDU, for which he worked as district manager in the Oberlahn district and in Usingen from 1948-49. In 1949, he was employed as legal secretary at the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in Wiesbaden. In 1952, he took over the office of managing director of the industrial union (IG) Bau-Steine-Erden, in 1960 he moved to its main executive board, served as a member of the board of the Hesse State Insurance Institution, was a member of the board of the Wiesbaden General Local Health Insurance Fund (AOK) and from 1960 sat on the administrative board of the Federal Institute for Employment Services and Unemployment Insurance.

He was a lecturer at the Christian Social School in Wiesbaden and also served as a state labor judge in Frankfurt am Main. From 1956, he was also a member of the Wiesbaden city council. In 1957 and 1965, he was elected to the German Bundestag on the Hesse state list.