Alfons Kraft (politician)

Alfons Kraft (born December 4, 1912 in Stuttgart , † August 26, 1971 in Trier ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Kraft attended secondary school where he passed the Abitur. He then studied at the higher building school in Stuttgart and passed his examination as a civil engineer in 1937. Until 1940 he was chief architect in the office of the Stuttgart architect Osthus. During the Second World War he was drafted into military service on September 1, 1939 . On March 1, 1940, he became Reserve Leader of the Waffen-SS and, from November 1940, Untersturmführer of the Waffen-SS in the 1st SS-Totenkopf-Reiterregiment , assigned to the Main Office for Household and Buildings. There he was commissioned with the SS construction management in Warsaw to carry out the construction of the SS in the Generalgouvernement .

From 1945 he was an architect at the city administration of Trier. In 1946 he became head of the Trier Planning and Building Supervision Office. In 1950 he was appointed building officer.

politics

In 1933 he became a member of the SS , in 1935 of the DAF and in 1937 of the NSDAP .

After the Second World War he joined the SPD and was chairman of the SPD city association of Trier until 1964. 1946–1949 he was honorary technical alderman for Trier and 1958–1971 full-time technical alderman for Trier, most recently with the title of mayor. For the SPD he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly in 1946/47 . He moved up for the resigned Maria Detzel in the advisory state assembly.

He was chairman of the building committee in the Rhineland-Palatinate city association, member of the public procurement department of the municipal community agency for administrative simplification, member and honorary chairman of the AWO district association and 1963-1971 president of a Trier carnival association.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 381.