Franz Pfender

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Franz Pfender (born August 5, 1899 in Untersulmetingen , † July 9, 1972 in Laupheim ) was a German politician ( center , later CDU ).

Life

Pfender attended elementary school and took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1917 to 1918 . In 1921 he became a member of a Catholic workers' association in Württemberg , worked as a full-time functionary in the Christian trade unions in Württemberg from 1922 and moved to Silesia in the same position in 1924 . From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Upper Silesia for the Center Party .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Pfender had to resign from his political and trade union functions. In the following years he lived in Silesia and worked from 1933 to 1939 as a district manager for a life insurance company. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier ; most recently he was taken prisoner of war.

After the end of the war Pfender worked as an employee in Biberach an der Riss . 1945 participated in the establishment of the CDU in the district of Biberach . Furthermore, he was deputy chairman of the Association of Displaced Persons in Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

Pfender was a member of the state parliament for Württemberg-Hohenzollern from 1946 to 1952 . At the same time, after the federal election in 1949 , he entered the first German Bundestag via the state list of the CDU Württemberg-Hohenzollern , to which he was a member until 1953. In the Bundestag he was a member of the Committee on Reconstruction and Housing, the Committee on Displaced Persons and the Committee on Internal Reorganization.

Franz Pfender was married to Margarete, nee Müller. The couple had four children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 11th edition. Arani, Berlin 1951, p. 489.
personal data
SURNAME Pfender, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Untersulmetingen
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1972
Place of death Laupheim