Johann Steffen
Johann Steffen (born March 20, 1902 in Mastershausen ; † January 3, 1975 in Zell (Mosel) ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( CDU ).
Life
Steffen was born the son of a master carpenter. After attending primary school in Mastershausen, he first worked in agriculture. In 1918 he began an apprenticeship in the carpenter's trade, which he completed in 1921 with the journeyman's examination. He then worked as a journeyman carpenter and passed the master craftsman examination in 1927. In 1938 he took over his parents' business, which he expanded into a furniture factory.
Steffen was organized as a district leader in the Catholic youth movement until 1933. He joined the CDU after 1945 and has been active in local politics since 1950 . From 1952 to 1969 he was a member of the Mastershausen Town Council, a member of the district council of the Zell district and a member of the district committee. From 1966 until the district was dissolved in the course of local reorganization in 1969, he was the first district deputy of the Zell district. In this function he was provisional district administrator from 1967 to 1969 . After the new formation of the district of Cochem-Zell , he was also first district deputy there until 1970.
In the state elections in 1959 and 1963 , Steffen was elected to the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate , to which he belonged until 1967, via the CDU state list . In Parliament he was from 1959 to 1963 a member of the Petitions Committee and the Economic and Reconstruction Committee and from 1963 to 1967 a member of the Viticulture and Wine Industry Committee and the Economic and Transport Committee.
Johann Steffen was married and had three children. He was buried in Mastershausen four days after his death.
Awards and honors
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Baron vom Stein plaque of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Coat of arms of the Cochem-Zell district
literature
- The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Advisory State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 674–675.
Web links
- Entry on Johann Steffen in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 22nd edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1983, p. 1177.
Salentin von Cohausen (1816) | Friedrich Alexander Moritz (1816–1850) | Leopold Kaufmann (1850–1851) | Rudolph Ulrich (1851–1860) | Eduard Hüger (1860–1867) | Carl Knebel (1867–1875) | Clemens August Heckmann (1870–1872) | Gerhard Grothusen (1875–1878) | Eugen Steinmann (1878–1884) | Wilhelm Dewitz von Woyna (1885–1889) | Walther Koenig (1889–1910) | Gustav von Stein (1910–1935) | Hermann Unger (1935–1940) | Joachim Hohberg (1940–1942) | Walter Schlueter (1942) | Otto Niese (1942–1944) | Bruno Jung (1944–1945) | Fritz Melsheimer (1945) | Paul Leidinger (1945–1946) | Josef Jansen (1946–1948) | Hans Puhl (1948–1954) | Hans Keller (1955–1966) | Karl Albert Reisch (1966–1967) | Johann Steffen (1967–1969)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steffen, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mastershausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd January 1975 |
| Place of death | Zell (Moselle) |