Christian Steinbach (politician, 1921)

Christian Steinbach (born June 25, 1921 in Olbersdorf , Oberlausitz ; † June 2, 1999 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After obtaining the secondary school leaving certificate in 1937, Christian Steinbach did Reich labor service from 1938 . After that he was in the Wehrmacht and ended up as a prisoner of war in North Africa for five years . He was released again in 1948 and completed an apprenticeship in agriculture with attendance at an agricultural school until 1950. He then worked independently as a farmer on a 20 hectare farm in Düshorn . He joined the SPD in April 1958. In 1960 he first became a member of the Soltau - Fallingbostel subdistrict board, and in 1968 he took over its chairmanship. He was involved at the district level in the Hanoverian SPD as a member of the Agricultural Policy Committee (from 1959), joined the Lower Saxon rural people and took over the chairmanship of the administrative board of the Fallingbosteler Kreissparkasse. In Düshorn he was elected to the council in 1956 and served there as mayor from 1968 to 1974, after which he became a council member of the city of Walsrode . He had been a member of the Fallingbostel district council since 1961. He also worked as district administrator from 1968 to 1972 and as deputy district administrator from 1964 to 1968 and from 1972.

Steinbach was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament in the 6th and 7th electoral periods (June 6, 1967 to June 20, 1974) and in the 8th and 9th electoral periods (November 28, 1975 to June 20, 1982).

He was married and has two children.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 367.