August Spies (politician)

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August Spies (born December 13, 1893 in Brücken ; † June 30, 1972 ibid) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending primary school and the advanced training school in Brücken, Spies worked as a miner from 1908 to 1935. In 1933 he was briefly taken into " protective custody ". From 1935 to 1945 he worked as a mining employee in Saarland , most recently at the Heinitz-Dechen mine . In the meantime, he attended the mining vocational school in Heinitz near Neunkirchen from 1941 to 1943 . In 1945 he was retired from the Saarknappschaft.

Political party

Spies was a member of the BVP from 1919 to 1933 . After the Second World War he was one of the co-founders of the CDP in the Palatinate , from which the Rhineland-Palatinate state association of the CDU later emerged. Later he was elected chairman of the CDU district association Kusel and the state board of the Palatinate Christian Democrats.

MP

Spies was elected to the district council of the Kusel district in 1946. In 1946/47 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and then a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament until his resignation on October 31, 1953 . Johann Klinkner succeeded him in the state parliament . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1961. In parliament he represented the constituency of Kaiserslautern .

Spies was a member of the 1st and 3rd Federal Assemblies for the election of the Federal President.

Public offices

Spies served as honorary mayor of the community of Brücken from 1946 to 1948 and was elected full-time mayor there in December 1948.

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. 829.
  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 669.

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personal data
SURNAME Spies, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH bridges
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1972
Place of death bridges