Fritz Gentner

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Fritz Gentner (born May 15, 1915 in Pegnitz ; † June 10, 2002 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After attending primary school, Gentner, who was of Protestant Lutheran faith, completed training as a primary school teacher. In 1935/36 he did his labor service . He then worked as a teacher. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the air intelligence service. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he did not return until three years later. From 1948 he worked again as a primary school teacher.

politics

Gentner and his father, Hans Gentner , who was a member of the Bavarian state parliament for many years , participated in the re-establishment of the SPD in Pegnitz in October 1945 . From 1956 to 1972 he was a member of the district council in the Pegnitz district and was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there. From 1958 to 1978 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , where he was the agricultural policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. From 1966 to 1978 he was also deputy chairman of the parliament's committee for food and agriculture. From 1972 to 1984 he was a member of the city council of Pegnitz and a member of the district council of the Bayreuth district , in which the Pegnitz district was absorbed during the regional reform.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Good Jurakorn for popular Buchauer wood-fired bread . SPD Pegnitz. August 25, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  2. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.