Caspar Kruger

Caspar Krüger (born June 13, 1899 in Neheim , † June 30, 1984 in Arnsberg ) was a German CDU politician .

Life

Krüger completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter before fighting in the First World War in 1917 and 1918. In the following years he worked in his learned profession and from 1939 in the metal industry. From 1919 he was organized in the Catholic woodworkers association, where he became chairman of the local group Neheim in 1927. After the Second World War, Krüger was one of the founders of the war victims organization, to which he had already belonged after the First World War, but which now had to be re-established. Krüger died in 1984, his estate is stored in the main state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.

politics

In 1925 Krüger joined the center , for which he was city councilor in Neheim from 1928. In 1933, Krüger was removed from office. He joined the CDU in 1947, which he represented in the Arnsberg district council from 1956. On December 15, 1958, Krüger moved to the German Bundestag for the late MP Josef Gockeln . He was involved in the committees for war victims and returnees and for reparations. In the federal election in 1961 , he could not defend his position.

After Heinrich Wilper, a member of the state parliament, was elected to the Bundestag in 1965, Krüger replaced him in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on October 18 . He was a member of the state parliament until the new election in 1966.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 461.

Web links

• Caspar Krüger at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia