Heinrich Krehle
Heinrich Krehle (born January 21, 1892 in Munich ; † October 16, 1969 there ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( CSU ).
Life and work
After attending elementary school, Krehle completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, which he completed with the assistant examination. He then trained at a craft drawing school. He joined the union in 1909 and went on a hike that same year, which took him to various German cities and Switzerland until 1912 . After his military service, he took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 . During the war he was used on the Western Front and in Palestine . He was most recently captured by the British in Egypt , from which he was released in 1920.
Krehle worked as a carpenter's assistant in Munich from 1920 to 1922. In the 1920s he attended sociopolitical and economic courses at an adult education center and from 1922 to 1930 was the managing director of the Central Association of Christian Woodworkers . In 1930 he became state secretary of the Christian trade unions in Bavaria and manager of the German Federation of Trade Unions .
After the National Socialists came to power, Krehle was removed from office. He was initially unemployed and worked for the Catholic Church Tax Office from 1934 until he switched to the Reich Finance Administration in 1935 . From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After the end of the war he took part in the reconstruction of the Bavarian Trade Union Federation (BGB).
Political party
In 1945 Krehle was one of the co-founders of the CSU in Bavaria. In 1945/46 he was a member of the provisional state committee of the CSU and from 1946 to 1949 chairman of the CSU district association in Munich. From 1946 to 1957 he was a member of the regional committee of the Christian Socials. In addition, he acted as chairman of the Christian Social Workers Union (CSA) from 1947 .
MP
Krehle was a council member of the city of Munich in 1945/46 . From June to October 1946 he was a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly. On December 10, 1948, he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1958.
Public offices
On October 22, 1945, Krehle was appointed State Secretary in the State Ministry for Labor and Social Welfare in the government of the Free State of Bavaria led by Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner ( Cabinet Hoegner I ). Since 1946, he has also been a member of the follow-up government headed by Prime Minister Hans Ehard ( Ehard I cabinet ) and was appointed Minister of State for Labor and Social Welfare ( Ehard II cabinet ) on September 20, 1947 . After the formation of a coalition of the CSU and the SPD , he had to hand over the management of the ministerial office to the social democratic politician Richard Oechsle on December 18, 1950 . Then he was again State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs ( Ehard III cabinet ) until he left the state government on December 14, 1954 .
Awards
- 1957: Large Cross of Merit with a star
- 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Krehle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich Krehle in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Albert Roßhaupter (1945–1947) | Heinrich Krehle (1947–1950) | Richard Oechsle (1950–1954) | Walter Stain (1954–1962) | Paul Strenkert (1962–1964) | Hans Schütz (1964–1966) | Fritz Pirkl (1966–1984) | Franz Neubauer (1984–1986) | Karl Hillermeier (1986–1988) | Gebhard Glück (1988–1994) | Barbara Stamm (1994-2001) | Christa Stewens (2001-2008) | Christine Haderthauer (2008–2013) | Emilia Müller (2013–2018) | Kerstin Schreyer (2018–2020) | Carolina Trautner (since 2020)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krehle, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists and politicians (CSU), MdL, Bavarian State Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th October 1969 |
| Place of death | Munich |