Carl Stenger

Carl Stenger (born November 26, 1905 in Hetschbach ; † June 29, 1982 in Bad Vilbel ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ). In the third electoral term he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Stenger attended primary school in Frankfurt am Main and then trained as a car mechanic from 1920 to 1924. After he had completed this, he began to work for the Deutsche Reichspost in 1925. There he later rose to post chief inspector. Stenger later became a voluntary employee of the Post group in the transport association.

politics

Stenger became a member of the SPD in 1925, but did not appear politically until the end of the Second World War. Only then did he become State Secretary of the German Postal Union in Hesse in 1947 and Managing Director of the Working Group of Postal Unions in the American Zone in 1948. In 1949 he was involved in the founding of the German Federation of Trade Unions and until 1971 chairman of the German Postal Union. From 1953 to 1971 he was a member of the administrative board of the Federal Post Office. In the Bundestag election in 1957 for the third electoral term, he was elected to the German Bundestag via the state list of the SPD in Hesse, but he was only a member for this electoral term. Stenger was a full member of the Committee on Transport, Post and Telecommunications. He was also a deputy member of the Interior Committee .

Honors

• 1966: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1971: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1971: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal

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. 845.
• Handbook of the German Bundestag , Material No. 127 of the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag from April 1998, p. 216, ISSN  0344-9130 (PDF; 1.20 MB)