Anton Storch

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Anton Storch (1952)

Anton Valentin Storch (born April 1, 1892 in Fulda ; † November 26, 1975 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was Federal Minister for Labor from 1949 to 1957 .

education and profession

Storch was born on April 1st, 1892 in Fulda. After his mother became seriously ill in 1898, he lived in the city orphanage from 1900. Storch attended the municipal cathedral school. In 1906 he began training as a carpenter and then worked as a carpenter journeyman until 1920. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1920 to 1931 he was head of the Hanover district and secretary of the Central Association of Christian Woodworkers. From 1931 to 1933 he then headed the Lower Saxony state association of the General German Trade Union Federation . After the trade unions were banned, he worked as an insurance agent until 1939. From 1939 to 1945 he did a security and auxiliary service at the Hanover Fire Police . From 1946 to 1948 he was head of the social policy department of the DGB in the British zone of occupation . Since 1966 Anton Storch was president of the Catholic men's community in Germany.

Political party

Stork appeared in 1912 in the Windthorst Federation , the youth organization of the Center for. In 1919 he then joined the center. In 1945 Anton Storch was one of the founders of the CDU. In 1946 and 1947, Storch campaigned for the workforce within the CDU and in the Economic Council of the Bizone .

MP

From 1947 to 1949 Storch was a member of the Economic Council of the United Economic Area . From 1949 to 1965 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from February 27, 1958 to December 21, 1965, he was also a member of the European Parliament , where he headed the Committee for Health Protection from 1962.

Anton Storch always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Osnabrück-Stadt and -Land .

Public offices

From August 1948 to 1949 he was Director of the Labor Administration for the United Economic Area.

On September 20, 1949 he was appointed Federal Minister of Labor . After the federal election in 1957 , he resigned from the federal government on October 29, 1957 after criticizing his administration .

Honors

• 1953: Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1956: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

His grave of honor is in the Frauenberg cemetery in Fulda .

Grave site / honorary grave of the former Federal Labor Minister Anton Storch

Publications

• Records and memories. In: Members of the German Bundestag, records and recollections , Volume 2, Boppard am Rhein, 1983, pages 313 to 344 (posthumously)

See also

• Cabinet Adenauer I - Cabinet Adenauer II

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 9, p. 558
• Klaus Mlynek : STORCH, Anton Valentin. 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 , pp. 351f .; partly online via Google books
• Klaus Mlynek: Storch, Anton Valentin. 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. 607.

Web links

Commons : Anton Storch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anton Storch's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Labor Ministry 1933–1945
• Newspaper article about Anton Storch in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Theresia Bauer: Anton Valentin Storch (1892–1975) . In: Günter letter / Brigitte Kaff / Hans-Otto Kleinmann (ed.): Christian democrats against Hitler . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-451-20805-9 , p. 493 .
2. ^ Theresia Bauer: Anton Valentin Storch (1892–1975) . In: Günter letter / Brigitte Kaff / Hans-Otto Kleinmann (ed.): Christian democrats against Hitler . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-451-20805-9 , p. 492 .
3. ^ Theresia Bauer: Anton Valentin Storch (1892–1975) . In: Günter letter / Brigitte Kaff / Hans-Otto Kleinmann (ed.): Christian democrats against Hitler . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-451-20805-9 , p. 499 .