Arnold Poepke

Arnold Poepke (born November 25, 1901 in Kaminsker Hauland , Obornik district , † July 14, 1989 in Northeim ) was a German economist and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending primary school, Poepke completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith, initially worked as a locksmith in Poznan and later switched to Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen . He attended social and economic policy courses in Essen as well as at the Evangelical Social School in Spandau and worked from 1923 to 1933 as a Protestant workers and association secretary. At the same time he attended evening grammar schools in Kassel and Berlin from 1929 to 1933 , graduated from secondary school in 1932 and passed the Abitur in Berlin in 1933. Then he began studying political science, which he in 1935 with testing a degree in economics and in 1937 awarded the degree of Dr. rer. pole. (Dissertation topic: Christian Socialism with Adolf Stoecker ) finished. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1948.

Poepke was the managing director of the Protestant labor movement from 1951. He also acted as executive chairman of the Institute for Workers' Education in Essen, which he had previously helped found.

MP

Poepke was a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1965. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 648.