Clemens Platten
Clemens Platten (born November 24, 1893 in Mörsdorf , Cochem-Zell district , † July 28, 1971 in Cochem ) was a German farmer and politician ( center , later CDU ).
Life
Platten was born the son of a farmer. After attending primary school in Mörsdorf, he worked in his parents' farm from 1908. He then worked in the Oberhausen coal and steel industry until 1914 . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War and was used as a soldier on the Western Front. After the end of the war he was trained at the church music school in Trier from 1919 to 1921 , after which he worked as an organist and sexton in Mörsdorf until 1951.
Platten had been working full-time as an independent farmer in Mörsdorf since 1922. From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the district council of the Cochem district for the Center Party . Towards the end of the Second World War he was conscripted.
Platten joined the CDU in 1945 and was again active in local politics . From 1945 to 1949 he was mayor of the community of Mörsdorf, also a member of the district council and until 1952 a member of the district committee in the district of Cochem. In the state elections in 1951 , 1955 , 1959 and 1963 , he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament through constituency 2 , to which he belonged until 1967. In the state parliament he was a member of the main committee from 1951 to 1955 and a member of the agricultural policy committee from 1955 to 1967.
Clemens Platten was married and had five children.
Awards
- 1963: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1966: Papal Order of Honor " Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice "
- 1966: Badge of honor for the district of Cochem
- Baron vom Stein plaque of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
literature
- 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. 514.
Web links
- Entry on Clemens Platten in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 15th edition. Arani, Berlin 1967, p. 1485.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Platten, Clemens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and politician (center, CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mörsdorf , Cochem-Zell district |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1971 |
| Place of death | Cochem |