Heinrich Pflüger

Heinrich Pflüger (born June 4, 1908 in Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria ; † May 8, 1968 in Munich, Free State of Bavaria ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

Life

After attending primary school and an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer, Heinrich Pflüger worked as an electrical engineer from 1925. From 1922 he was involved in the Catholic youth movement , later in the Catholic workers' association and then in the Christian trade union until its dissolution in 1933 .

Because of his membership in the Harnier Circle , a monarchist resistance group against National Socialism , he was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1939 . After five years in prison, he was sentenced in 1944 by the People's Court to five years in prison for high treason.

After his release at the end of the war in 1945, he initially worked at the Munich Red Cross Concentration Camp Support Center, from 1946 to 1949 he headed the State Commissariat for the Politically Persecuted in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior , after which he was Vice President of the Bavarian State Compensation Office until the end of 1952.

In 1946 he was a co-founder of the CSU local association Munich-Milbertshofen . When the party was founded, he was also a member of the state executive. In 1953 he became managing director of the CSU in the Munich district association. From 1958 until his death he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament . He died on May 8, 1968 and was buried in the Munich forest cemetery. His successor in the state parliament was Erwin Stein .

Web links

• Heinrich Pflüger in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Plenary minutes of the 45th session of the 6th Bavarian State Parliament on May 14, 1968 (PDF; 3.3 MB) with obituary for Heinrich Pflüger