Gustav Joseph (merchant)

Gustav Joseph (born May 12, 1901 in Nuremberg ; † July 25, 1995 there ) was a German businessman .

Joseph attended elementary school and commercial training school and did his business apprenticeship. In 1922 he was appointed secretary of the garden city of Nuremberg , later he moved to the cooperative central company for building materials production, where he was most recently managing director. He then headed the umbrella organization of the Nuremberg-Fürth building cooperative. In 1933 he was taken into protective custody, in France he had to do forced labor. He was a soldier in World War II until he was taken prisoner by the French, from which he was released in 1946. After the war he became chairman of the newly founded association of Nuremberg-Fürth building cooperatives. He later headed the building materials central companies of the non-profit housing companies in Northern Bavaria and was a member of the board of the Association of Bavarian Housing Companies in Munich . From 1947 to 1958 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate before he was appointed to the board of the Housing Promotion Agency of North Rhine-Westphalia , of which he was a member until 1964.

Web links

• Gustav Joseph in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History