Hugo Karpf

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Hugo Karpf (1985)

Hugo Karpf (born January 17, 1895 in Wüstenzell near Marktheidenfeld , † July 19, 1994 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German politician ( BVP , CSU ).

Life and work

Karpf was a trained tailor and joined the Christian trade union movement before the First World War . He took part in World War I and was taken prisoner by the British. After 1918 he became an employee of the Association of Christian Workers . After his mandates as a member of the Reichstag and after the forced dissolution of the trade unions by the National Socialists , Karpf worked as an unskilled worker, later as a cutter, as a result of a professional ban . Together with the social democrat Jean Stock , he founded an opposition circle of friends that offered help and refuge to the citizens of Aschaffenburg who were oppressed by the National Socialists. As a professed Catholic he was accepted into the Third Order of the Franciscans . In 1939 he was drafted into the horse procurement commission on the Bavarian Lower Main as "politically unreliable". In 1945 he was dismissed from the army as a sergeant. With Bernhard Junker and Benno Lehmann, Karpf was one of the founders of the DGB unified trade union in Aschaffenburg. He also worked as a union secretary in the clothing industry. In 1947 he joined the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime . He was appointed to the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundespost and appointed judge in the Federal Labor Court for a period of twelve years . He was a member of the city council of Aschaffenburg.

Grave site in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery

Hugo Karpf married Klara Maria Zahn in 1923. From this marriage there were eight children. His wife died in 1979. Hugo Karpf died in 1994 at the age of 99. He found his final resting place in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery.

Political party

After the First World War, Karpf joined the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). After the Second World War, in 1945 he and other applicants received permission from the military government in Bavaria to found a political party they called the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) Aschaffenburg. A short time later, with the consent of the military government, this party joined forces with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria on January 8, 1946 .

MP

Karpf was a BVP member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Franconia as early as 1932 and 1933 ; since he did not move up for another member of parliament until July 1933, he was not involved - like the rest of the BVP members - in approving Hitler's enabling law. Karpf was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone from 1947 to 1949 and a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly in 1946. He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1957, and was directly elected in the constituency of Aschaffenburg in both 1949 and 1953 . In both parliaments, he campaigned in particular for the rights of homeworkers , a form of work that was particularly common in his profession. His commitment earned him the honorable nickname “father of homeworkers”.

Awards

Fonts

  • with Karl Fitting : Home Work Act of March 14, 1951 with Implementing Ordinance (Commentary). 1953.
  • Home work and union. A contribution to the social history of home work in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1980.
  • Records and memories. In: Members of the German Bundestag. Records and memories. Volume 3, Boppard am Rhein 1985, pp. 89-139.
  • My life through nine decades. Cologne 1987.
  • My memories. (Ed.) Hermann Karpf. Aschaffenburg 2007, 2nd edition 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Karpf, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (BVP, CSU), MdR, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Wüstenzell , Marktheidenfeld district
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1994
Place of death Aschaffenburg