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

Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag
1949-2002, vol. 2 (N-Z). Edited by Vierhaus, Rudolf/Herbst, Ludolf, with the collaboration of Bruno Jahn, Munich 2002 [p. 930].