Friedrich Klein (politician)

Friedrich Klein (born August 6, 1899 in Nieder Kostenz , † September 4, 1961 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

The son of a blacksmith learned the blacksmith's trade after attending primary school. After participating in the First World War , he visited the teaching forge of the Rhine Province in Cologne-Ehrenfeld from 1920 . In 1921 he took over his father's business, which he ran as an independent farmer and master blacksmith after having passed his master craftsman's examination in 1935.

Klein was a member of the NSDAP from 1933 to 1935 . From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and until 1935 block administrator of the NSV. After the dissolution of the free trade unions , he was a member of the German Labor Front from 1934 to 1945 and a local craftsman of the DAF until 1935. Due to his membership in Nazi organizations, he was denazified after the Second World War . On May 6, 1949, he was classified as a fellow traveler by a purge notice from the Simmern investigative committee and at the same time sentenced to a fine of 75 DM and the withdrawal of the right to stand as a candidate.

Klein joined the SPD in 1947 and was elected chairman of the SPD district association in Simmern in 1952. From 1949 he was the official representative in the Kirchberg office and from 1953 a member of the municipal council of Nieder Kostenz. He also belonged to the district council of the Simmern district from 1953. In the district council he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the state elections in 1955 he was elected to the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate , to which he belonged until 1959. In parliament he was a member of the Petitions Committee and the Economic and Reconstruction Committee.

In 1959, Klein was a member of the 3rd Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Advisory State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 351.