Alwin Kulawig

Alwin Kulawig (born January 17, 1926 in Krughütte , † October 19, 2003 in Saarlouis ) was a Saarland politician ( SPD ).

education and profession

Kulawig attended school in Klarenthal , Saarbrücken and Bamberg . He then began an apprenticeship as an optician, which was interrupted by labor and military service. During the Second World War he became a prisoner of war, from which he "returned home in 1946. He then worked as a farm worker, bricklayer and miner, until he finally returned to work as an optician in 1950.

politics

From 1953 he belonged to the German Social Democratic Party (DSP), which was then still banned in Saarland . The party was approved in the summer of 1955 and named after the rejection of the European Saar Statute in SPD Saar to. In the subsequent state elections in December 1955, Kulawig was able to win a mandate that he defended in the 1960 election.

After moving into the Bundestag in 1961, he resigned from the Landtag. He is a member of the Bundestag for four legislative periods (until 1976). From 1968 to 1974 he was also deputy chairman of the Saarland SPD. From 1964 to 1970 Kulawig was also a member of the European Parliament . In the last years of his life, Kulawig withdrew from political life.

Honors

Kulawig was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit on April 25, 1977 .

Web links

Alwin Kulawig on saarland-biografien.de

Individual evidence

^ The German Social Democratic Party (DSP) from 1952 to 1955 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
^ Mourning Alwin Kulawig. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 24, 2003.
^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 18 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken May 9, 1977, p. 391–392 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Kulawig, Alwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saarland politician (SPD), MdL, MdB, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krughütte
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 2003
Place of death	Saarlouis

[1] The German Social Democratic Party (DSP) from 1952 to 1955 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Mourning Alwin Kulawig. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 24, 2003.

[svo-3] Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 18 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken May 9, 1977, p. 391–392 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2017]).