Fritz Mensing

Fritz Mensing on an election poster for the 1957 federal election

Fritz Mensing (born April 25, 1895 in Hameln , † November 2, 1978 ibid) was a German politician ( Economic Party , CDU ).

Life and work

After attending grammar school, Mensing, who was Protestant , completed an apprenticeship as a butcher . After his master craftsman's examination, he took over his father's business in Hameln in 1924. He was a member of the board of directors of the Northwest German Association of Craftsmen.

After 1945 Mensing became chairman of the German butcher's association, district master craftsman and member of the executive committee of the Central Association of German Crafts and took on other tasks in organizations of the craft. In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Volksbank Hameln and the central cooperative of the butcher's trade. In 1968 he was awarded the Martin Lerche Medal for exceptional services to the German meat industry by the German Agricultural Society .

MP

Mensing belonged to the economic party and was a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament from 1924 to 1933 . In the period from 1933 to 1945 he held no public offices and no political activity.

After the end of the war, Mensing was part of the Hameln City Council. He was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time in 1949 and was represented in it until 1961, where he entered parliament in all ballots via the Lower Saxony state list of his party. Mensing was a member of the Food, Agriculture and Forestry Committee.

Public offices

Mensing was a senator in Hameln before 1933.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 553.