Balthasar Burkart

Balthasar Burkart (born January 4, 1896 in Dauchingen ; † August 9, 1960 in Rastatt ) was a German mechanic , construction worker and politician ( BCSV / CDU ).

After finishing school, Burkart worked in the watch factory of the Junghans brothers in Schwenningen . In 1915 he was committed to military service. After returning from the First World War in 1919, he worked in the watch factory again, but now as a foreman in another branch. In 1931 he switched to construction, and in 1936 he was employed in a brick factory. At the beginning of World War II in 1939, Burkart was drafted into military service. After the end of the war in 1945 he returned from a Soviet captivity and worked as a worker in a Rastatt foundry. Since 1946 he took up his political activities as a city and district councilor in Rastatt, became a member of the advisory council of Baden and became a politician of the Baden Christian Social People's Party (BCSV). After the incorporation of the BCSV into the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), he continued to be politically active for this party.

literature

• Werner Breunig et al .: Constitutional Policy 2: Data Handbook for Land Parliamentarians 1945–1953. ed. Frank R. Pfetsch. Frankfurt, Bern, New York: Lang, 1985. ISBN 3820483438 , ISSN  0178-2444
• Paul Feuchte: “Sources for the creation of the Baden state constitution from 1947.” Publications on the constitutional history of Baden-Württemberg since 1945 15 (1) (1999). ISBN 3170150596 .
• Josef Weik: Member of the Bundestag and Landtag history of Baden-Württemberg 1945–1984. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984. ISBN 3608913370