Heinrich-Wilhelm Ruhnke

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Heinrich-Wilhelm Ruhnke (born August 21, 1891 in Jävenitz , † March 21, 1963 in Hanover ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

Ruhnke attended the upper secondary school in Erfurt and reached secondary school there . He then worked from 1907 to 1913 in the senior administrative service at the city administration in Erfurt. After participating in the First World War, he became head of the Erfurt unemployment office. Then he took his Abitur, again at the Erfurt secondary school, and then studied law and political science in Halle and Jena. From 1924 he was employed by the savings bank and from 1927 director of the association savings bank . In 1933 he was dismissed without notice for political reasons and from then on worked first as a sales representative, then as the head of an electronics trading company in Hildesheim. After the Second World War he went into business for himself as a wholesaler in 1946.

politics

In 1945 Ruhnke became deputy chairman of the inter-parliamentary working group and the German Atomic Energy Society. In addition, he was councilor of the SPD in Hildesheim at the time.

Ruhnke was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1961. From May 8, 1956 to 1957, he was chairman of the Bundestag's special committee on the “ Water Management Act ”. In the first legislative period , Ruhnke was elected to the Bundestag in the Hildesheim constituency. From 1949 to 1953 he was a full member of the Committee for Money and Credit, in which he was also active in the second electoral term. In the second and third electoral terms he entered the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list. From May 8, 1956 to 1957 Ruhnke was chairman of the special committee "Water Management Act", from January 1956 to 1961 he was also a full member of the committee for nuclear issues, which from 1957 was called the Committee for Atomic Energy and Water Management.

Two years after leaving the Bundestag, he died at the age of 71 in Hanover.

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  • The federal government's financial support for nuclear technology development , oOuJ (around 1959).

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