Erich Jung (politician)

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Erich Jung (born November 3, 1908 in Berlin , † December 10, 1988 in Nuremberg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Erich Jung attended primary school and did an apprenticeship as a boat builder . He first worked as a wood machine worker and in 1935 changed his profession to a bank and savings bank employee . In 1940 he was the Wehrmacht confiscated and fell in 1945 in American captivity .

After the Second World War , Jung was employed by the Weißensee district office in Berlin and chairman of the workers' welfare organization (AWO) in Weißensee until the Wall was built in 1961 . In 1948 he was politically reprimanded by the Soviet headquarters and therefore moved to the West Berlin district office in Kreuzberg . Jung joined the SPD in 1949. In the Berlin election in 1958 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1963.

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