Franz Op den Orth

Franz Op den Orth (born November 28, 1902 in Essen , † March 10, 1970 in Ampfing ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After completing elementary school, Op den Orth completed an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen and then worked in this profession. At the same time he attended vocational, industrial and mechanical engineering schools, continued his education at the adult education center for seven years and took evening academic courses. He had been a member of the socialist press since 1925 and was the youth leader of the trade unions in Essen and Hattingen until 1933 . In 1928 he attended the business and works council school of the trade unions in Bad Dürrenberg and in 1930/31 the business school of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Bernau near Berlin .

After the National Socialists came to power, Op den Orth was arrested by the SA in 1933 and briefly placed in " protective custody ". From 1934 he worked again at Essener Krupp AG and from 1935 to 1939 he worked as a diesel specialist abroad ( Spain , Portugal , Yugoslavia , Romania , the Netherlands , Denmark and Sweden ). In 1939 he was employed as a foreman at the general agency of Krupp AG in Schweinfurt . From 1942 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . During the war he was used as an army foreman in the tank troops . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in September 1945. From 1946 to 1951 he worked as an editor for the social democratic newspaper Der Volkswille in Schweinfurt.

Political party

During the Weimar Republic, Op den Orth was a member of the founding committee of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Essen and head of the youth team there. After 1945 he joined the SPD. He acted as party secretary in Bavaria and was temporarily chairman of the SPD sub-district of Schweinfurt.

MP

In 1933 Op den Orth was a council member of the city ​​of Hattingen . In 1946 he was a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly and was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1946 until his resignation on April 17, 1954 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957. He entered parliament through the Bavarian State List.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 621-622.