Ernst Kuntscher

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Ernst Kuntscher on an election poster for the 1961 federal election

Ernst Kuntscher (born January 7, 1899 in Bautsch , Moravia , † October 10, 1971 in Stade ) was a German CDU politician .

Life

After attending elementary school , Kuntscher, who was of the Roman Catholic faith, completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith, which was temporarily interrupted by the First World War . In Czechoslovakia , Kuntscher had been a member of the German Christian Social People's Party since 1919 . Until 1922 he worked as a locksmith. Since he was only able to exercise the profession to a limited extent due to the long-term consequences of war injuries, he retrained as a banker from 1922 and worked for the Volksbank in Bautsch, whose chief civil servant and board member he became in 1936. He was also the managing director of a Christian consumer cooperative. He was also involved in the Christian trade union movement in the Sudetenland .

From 1927 on, Kuntscher was a city councilor in Bautsch, where he was parliamentary group leader of the German Christian Social People's Party. After the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, he was removed from office. He had been a member of the NSDAP since December 1, 1938 ( membership number 6,595,129).

From 1943 to 1945 Kuntscher was in the Wehrmacht and then in English captivity. Kuntscher came to Lower Saxony in 1945 as a displaced person and worked in the city administration of Stade. In 1945 he participated in the founding of the CDU. He was a member of the state parliament in Lower Saxony and also belonged to the district council in the Stade district . From 1948 on, Ernst Kuntscher was the district's deputy district administrator.

Kuntscher was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1969. He always got into parliament via the Lower Saxony state list of his party. From July 9, 1954 to 1961 he was chairman of the Bundestag committee for expellees, from 1961 to 1965 of the Bundestag committee for burden sharing.

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. 225.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Kuntscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. (PDF; 1.8 MB) p. 20.
  2. ↑ Kuntscher, Ernst . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 698 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Kuntscher, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautsch , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1971
Place of death Stade