Jakob Schunk
Jakob Schunk (born January 7, 1902 in Niederkirchen , † February 24, 1976 in Pirmasens ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1945 to 1967 he was mayor of the city of Pirmasens and from 1967 to 1971 a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate .
Life
After attending elementary school, Schunk worked as a skilled worker in the shoe industry from 1915 to 1929. From 1915 to 1917 he had continued his education at an advanced training school and from 1929 to 1930 he was a student at the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main . From 1932 to 1940 he worked as an employee in purchasing and accounting in a shoe factory and from 1940 to 1945 he was the commercial manager of a construction company. In 1945 he took over the provisional management of the employment office in Pirmasens.
Schunk joined the SPD in 1919 and continued his political activities after 1945. On June 23, 1945, he was appointed acting Lord Mayor of Pirmasens by the US military government and was confirmed in office on September 15, 1946 in the course of the first free local elections. After being re-elected several times, he left the office of Lord Mayor in 1967. During his tenure in 1965, the town twinning with the French municipality of Poissy was established . He also acted as chairman of the supervisory board of Bauhilfe GmbH.
From 1951 to 1967 Schunk was a member of the District Assembly and the District Committee of the Palatinate. In the state elections in 1967 he was elected as a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, to which he was a member until 1971. In parliament he was a member of the Committee on Economics and Transport.
Jakob Schunk was married and had three children.
honors and awards
- 1967: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Jakob-Schunk-Strasse in Pirmasens
literature
- The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 641.
Web links
- Entry for Jakob Schunk in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Geis, Gerhard Nestler (ed.): The Palatinate Social Democracy. Contributions to its history from the beginning to 1948/49. KF Geißler, Edenkoben 1999, ISBN 3-933086-75-2 , p. 625.
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 16th edition. Arani, Berlin 1970, p. 1208.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schunk, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Parliament, Lord Mayor of Pirmasens |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1976 |
| Place of death | Pirmasens |
Christian König (1885–1896) | Ludwig König sen. (1897-1905) | Otto Strobel (1905–1934) | Rudolf Ramm (1934–1937) | Emil Gauer (1937–1945) | Jakob Schunk (1945–1967) | Karl Rheinwalt (1967–1993) | Robert Schelp (1994-1998) | Joseph Krekeler (1999–2003) | Bernhard Matheis (2003–2019) | Markus Zwick (since 2019)