Günther Sponge

Günther Schwamm (born March 28, 1935 in Kaiserslautern , † February 16, 2015 in Essen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Sponge, who was a Catholic denomination, attended elementary school and vocational school from 1942 to 1949 and trained as a locksmith from 1950 to 1953. He then worked as a locksmith and was a pieceworker at Pfaff Industriemaschinen GmbH in Kaiserslautern, where he was also a member of the works council from 1965.

politics

Schwamm had been a member of the SPD since 1961. From 1970 to 1980 he was deputy chairman of the local association and in 1980 chairman of the local association in Kaiserslautern. In 1976 he became a member of the sub-district executive committee of the SPD. In 1973 he became sub-district chairman and in 1976 district chairman Palatinate of the working group for employee issues and a member of the state board of Rhineland-Palatinate of the AfA.

He was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from May 20, 1975 to May 17, 1991. In the state parliament he was a writing representative and a member of the petitions committee. In the 10th electoral term he was also a member of the Committee on Social Affairs and Health and the Subcommittee on Women's Issues.

In addition, in 1978 he was a member of the Central Association of Central and East Germans. V., 1983 member of the supervisory board of Pfaff-Industrie-Sewing Machine Works AG Kaiserslautern, 1984 deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the non-profit building company AG Kaiserslautern, member of the administrative board of the Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern , member of the advisory board of the Kaiserslautern correctional facility , of IG Metall and honorary chairman of the workers' Samaritan association of Kaiserslautern .

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1984)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1990)

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 643.