Erwin Reinholz

Erwin Reinholz (born October 12, 1923 in Vehlefanz , Osthavelland district ; † January 7, 2005 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After attending elementary school, Erwin Reinholz completed an apprenticeship as a model carpenter, which he completed vocational training in the Hennigsdorf Central German steel and rolling mills . During the Second World War , he served in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945 until he was seriously wounded and taken prisoner by the British at the end of the war. He spent the following four years in a military hospital in Bad Pyrmont . He retrained in the Lower Saxony handicapped vocational schools for construction and furniture carpenters, and worked in this profession until 1956. He then attended the trade union academy of work in Frankfurt (Main) and started working full-time at the German Trade Union Federation from 1958 . In December 1959, he took over the executive chairmanship of the DGB district of Peine , joined the wood union and became district chairman of the DGB. In the SPD sub-district of Peine, he took over the chairmanship, as well as in the general local health insurance fund Peine and the trade union educational institution Work and Life . From May 20, 1963 to June 20, 1982 he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (5th to 9th electoral term), and from September 28, 1978 to June 20, 1982 he was chairman of the mine safety subcommittee in the Committee for Economics and Transport.

Reinholz was married and had four 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. 305.