Johann Cramer

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John Cramer (* 29. July 1905 in the north , Province of Hanover , Kingdom of Prussia ; † 14. January 1987 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After elementary school , Cramer first attended business school and then did a commercial apprenticeship. From 1924 he worked as an editor at the of Hermann Temple led Ostfriesischen Volkszeitung . Until 1931 he was also chairman of the “Central Association of Employees” in Emden , then until 1933 he was editor-in-chief of the Volksblatt in Saalfeld . In 1933 he was temporarily detained for political reasons. After his release from prison, he first set up a commercial printing company and later a shoe insole factory. From 1941 he was a soldier and towards the end of the war he became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1946.

After the Second World War Cramer was 1946 auditor at the main arbeitsamt then in Emden, director of the county Economic Office North . He was a license holder of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundschau , whose publishing director and editor-in-chief he also became in 1954.

Political party

Cramer was one of the founders of the “Socialist Youth North” in 1920 and joined the SPD in 1921. Since 1955 he was district chairman of the SPD in Wilhelmshaven. He was also deputy chairman of the SPD party district Weser-Ems.

MP

In 1948/49 Cramer was a member of the Economic Council. He became a member of the German Bundestag in 1949 as a member of the German Bundestag directly elected in the Wilhelmshaven - Friesland constituency and was chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Post and Telecommunications during this legislative period. He was a member of the Bundestag again from 1957 to 1972. He won his constituency directly in 1961 and 1969 , and in the other electoral periods he entered parliament via the Lower Saxony state list of his party. Since 1956 he was also a city councilor in Wilhelmshaven.

Honors

Johann Cramer was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1968 and the Great Cross of Merit with a Star in 1972 .

literature

  • Johann Cramer: Notes and Memories. In: Members of the German Bundestag - records and memories. Volume 1. Boppard am Rhein, 1982, pp. 255-307.
  • Cramer, Johann . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Cahn-Garnier to Czymek] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 193 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 88 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official handbook of the German Bundestag, 3rd electoral period
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH north
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1987
Place of death Wilhelmshaven