Georg Budke

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Georg Budke on a state election poster in 1950

Georg Budke (born March 11, 1900 in Hollage , Osnabrück district , † October 9, 1994 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1946 to 1958 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1959 to 1969 mayor of the city of Grevenbroich .

Life

Budke was born the fifth of seven children, attended elementary school and trained as a forest worker. He then worked as a worker in the quarry on Piesberg near Osnabrück until October 1922 . He then worked in the Osnabrück copper and wire works (OKD) and later as a miner on a mine in Essen . He took part in trade union and economic courses at the school in Königswinter . In 1933, when the trade unions were dissolved by the NSDAP, he was dismissed without notice. By order of the National Socialists he was without a permanent job until 1939. In order to earn the living for his wife and six children, he worked as a commission agent. In August 1939 he was finally drafted into the Wehrmacht. In 1952 he became director at Rheinbraun in the Neurath opencast mine .

politics

Budke became a member of the Christian trade unions as early as 1917, and a year later he also became a member of the Catholic workers' associations. From 1922 he was a member of the Catholic journeyman's association. He also became the youth secretary of the Association of Christian Miners in Lünen. From 1922 to 1933 he was a member of the Center Party . From January 1927 Budke was youth secretary and head of the cartel of Christian unions in Bottrop. From January 1930 he was editor of the youth publication "Knappenjugend" and youth secretary of the Association of Christian Miners in Germany . During this time he got to know Nikolaus Groß and had regular exchanges with him until his death. After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the CDU Westphalia, whose district chairman he was in Bottrop. Soon afterwards he became a member of the mining industry union and from 1947 a councilor in Bottrop, where he was parliamentary group leader of the CDU until 1950. From 1950 to 1952 he was mayor of Bottrop. Budke was elected a member of the Landtag for the second term of office in 1946 and was elected a year later in the constituency 095 Bottrop as a direct candidate in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, to which he belonged from December 19, 1946 to July 12, 1958. From 1950 he was deputy group chairman. In his third and final legislative period, he was directly elected to parliament in constituency 028 Grevenbroich-West. From 1959 to 1969 he was mayor of Grevenbroich and from 1969 to 1973 member of the district council of Grevenbroich-Neuss .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Georg Budke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Wiljo Piel: North German community honors Grevenbroich's former mayor. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. June 19, 2013, p. C2.
  2. ↑ Biographical note  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.kgparl.de, accessed on April 12, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kgparl.de  
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 219, November 21, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Budke, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollage , Osnabrück district
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1994