Johann plate

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Johann Platte (born December 28, 1894 in Annen , † March 21, 1960 in Essen ) was a German trade unionist, journalist and politician (first of the Center Party , later of the CDU ).

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Platte attended elementary school in Annen and did a commercial apprenticeship in Dortmund from 1909 to 1912 . After military service from 1912 to 1914, he went into mining and attended the mining preschool in Witten . Platte was a soldier during the First World War and ended up as a French prisoner of war. After his release he was a miner in Witten. From 1924 he attended the state school for economics and administration in Düsseldorf . From 1925 he was an employee of the Christian Miners' Union, first in Gelsenkirchen and from 1932 in Breslau . At the same time he was a freelancer for the union newspaper Der Bergknappe and the newspaper Der Deutsche . In 1932 and 1933 he was an editor for the miners . In addition, Platte was an honorary state labor judge, member of the administrative board of the Silesian state labor office and the Prussian mine safety commission. Politically, he belonged to the center before 1933.

After the National Socialists "came to power" , Platte was dismissed and given a four-year professional ban. During this time there were repeated arrests and house searches. From 1937 he worked as an insurance agent in Essen and was called up to the fire brigade during the Second World War . After the war ended, Platte worked as a journalist again. From 1947 he was head of the press office of IG Bergbau und Energie and was editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Bergbauindustrie . From 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the union's executive committee. After 1945, Platte was a member of the CDU. At Karl Arnold's request , he took over the office of Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1954 to 1956 , without having a mandate from the state parliament.

See also

Arnold III cabinet

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia. Country and people 1946-2006. Düsseldorf, 2006. p. 366