Hermann A. Eplée

Hermann A. Eplée (born December 5, 1908 in Mitau ; † April 30, 1973 ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending school, Eplée began to study at university, which he completed with a business degree. He then worked in the hotel and restaurant industry as well as in commercial operations from 1936 to 1939. From 1941 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was most recently taken prisoner.

After his return from captivity, Eplée moved to West Germany as a displaced person from the Baltic States and settled in Lower Saxony . He initially worked as a secretary for a British county governor before he took up an official position in the Federal Ministry for displaced persons, refugees and war victims in 1950 .

Political party

Eplée had been a member of the CDU since 1947. Until 1952 he was chairman of the Lower Saxony state expellees committee and from 1954 to 1958 chairman of the CDU regional association Oder / Neisse , an internal party organization for expellees.

MP

Eplée was from 1947 to 1951 council member of the city ​​of Soltau and at the same time a member of the district council. In 1948/49 he was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone . He belonged to the German Bundestag from January 16, 1953, when he replaced the deceased MP Bernardus Povel , until the end of the legislative period a few months later and again since September 8, 1958, when he replaced Franz Meyers , who after his election to North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister resigned from the Bundestag. After the end of the legislative period in 1961, Eplée was no longer represented in the Bundestag.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 184.