Franz Wolf (politician)

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Franz Wolf (born August 31, 1889 in Dessau , † May 23, 1972 in Kelheim ) was a German trade union official and politician of the SPD . He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1946 to 1962.

Life and work

Wolf, the son of a carpenter, completed an apprenticeship in stonemasonry after attending elementary school and set out on a journey through the German Empire , Switzerland , Austria , France , Sweden and Denmark . Then he did his military service. This happened mainly in Zerbst , but also in a training battalion in Berlin . During the First World War he was on duty in France and Russia . In 1927 he went to Sweden to study for nine months. From 1933 onwards he was arrested several times and imprisoned in the Gienheim camp . Later he worked again as a stonemason foreman on an illegal basis until 1940, shortly afterwards he was transferred to Kelheim as a foreman. In 1947 he founded a non-profit building and settlement cooperative in Kelheim, and a settlement in Kelheim was named after him. In addition, he was chairman of the board of the Lower Bavaria-Upper Palatinate state insurance company for five years .

labor union

In 1906 Wolf joined the stone workers' association. In 1918 he was elected chairman of the ADGB district committee in Langensalza . In 1924 he took over the post of full-time district manager for Marienberg and Limburg an der Lahn in the Central Association of Stone Workers in Germany. With the dissolution of the unions in 1933, he lost his post as union secretary. After the war he was used by the US occupation forces to rebuild the unions. He took part in the development of the Bavarian Trade Union Federation (today DGB district of Bavaria ) and became district manager of the DGB in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate . He held this office until his 65th birthday.

politics

In 1907 Wolf became a member of the SPD. For this he was from 1911 to 1924 city councilor in Bad Langensalza and a member of the district council of the Bad Langensalza district . In 1924 he took over the chairmanship of the district for Lahn , Dill , Westerwald and Sieggebiet within the SPD , which had its seat in Marienberg and Limburg an der Lahn. He held this office until 1933. In that year he ran for both the state parliament and the Reichstag . From May 1945 he participated in the reconstruction of the SPD, he became its chairman of the Kelheim - Mainburg subdistrict . In the state election in 1946 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for the first time. His mandate was confirmed in the 1950, 1954 and 1958 elections, so that he was a member of parliament until 1962. He was always elected through a mandate in the constituency of Lower Bavaria. Also from 1946 to 1962 he was a member of the Kelheim district council.

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SURNAME Wolf, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official and politician (SPD), MdL Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1972
Place of death Kelheim