Josef Andre

Josef Andre (born February 16, 1879 in Schramberg , † March 15, 1950 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician of the CENTER .

Life and work

Andre came from the large family of a straw hat worker. After attending primary school in Schramberg, Andre learned the trade of carpenter from 1896 to 1899. After a few years as a journeyman in the learned profession and advanced training courses at the Volksverein for Catholic Germany , he was from 1904 to 1926 as successor to Matthias Erzberger workers secretary in the Catholic labor movement .

Political activity in the Kingdom of Württemberg

Andre was a member of the center and its youth organization Windthorstbund . Within the party he was counted to the left wing of the party. He was chairman of the subdivision for the Ulm region . From 1906 to 1918 Andre was a member of the state parliament for voters in the Württemberg Oberamt Oberndorf . He thus had a mandate in the Second Chamber of the Württemberg estates . In the First World War he served in the Landsturm.

During the Weimar Republic

Andre was a member of the Association of War Participants and the Consumer Committee. In 1919 he was elected to the Württemberg state assembly and then belonged again to the state parliament until 1933 . He was a member of the Weimar National Assembly from 1919 to 1920 . He was then a member of the Reichstag until October 31, 1928 . In the summer of 1926 he was promoted to a government councilor in the Württemberg Ministry of Economics. From 1928 to 1934 he was President of the Württemberg State Insurance Company. Andre also worked as a newspaper editor for newspapers with party political and social topics.

Politically sidelined

In 1934, the National Socialists removed Andre from his post as President of the State Insurance Company for political reasons. From September 1934 he then worked as a legal advisor at the Caritas Association 's social counseling center . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested that same month in Schramberg, from there he was sent to the police prison in Stuttgart for three weeks, then to the Welzheim protective custody camp for seven weeks and from here to the Oberndorf-Aistaig labor education camp at the beginning of October 1944 . Here he was released on November 1, 1944.

post war period

After the Second World War , Andre was appointed the first President of the State Insurance Institute (LVA) Württemberg and was the driving force behind the process of denazification of the LVAen Baden and Württemberg. He participated in the development of the CDU , of which he was chairman for Northern Württemberg from 1946 to 1948. In 1946 he was a member of the provisional parliament and the state constituent assembly in Württemberg-Baden . Until his death he was a member of the first state parliament of Württemberg-Baden as a representative of the Schwäbisch Gmünd constituency . After the Second World War, from September 1945 to May 1946, Josef Andre was Minister of Economics in the cabinet of Prime Minister Reinhold Maier in Württemberg-Baden. At the urging of the US military government, he was dismissed from this post on May 31, 1946. From June 1 to December 20, 1946 Andre was Minister for Special Use.

family

Josef Andre was married to Maria Balbina Faist (* 1882; † 1932) for the first time since 1906. In 1946 he married Anna Maria Schnell née Kuhn (* 1895) for the second time. Andre was the father of six children.

Honors

The Josef-Andre-Straße in Schramberg is named after Andre .

literature

August Hagen: Josef Andre . In: Figures from Swabian Catholicism , Stuttgart 1963
Franz Fehrenbacher: Josef Andre ( 1879-1950 ) - A Schramberger in the highest state and party offices , in " D'Kräz ", contributions to the history of the city and space Schramberg , issue 12 (1992), pp. 45-61

Bernd Haunfelder : Member of the Reichstag of the German Center Party 1871-1933. Biographical manual and historical photographs . Photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 4. Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 293
Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures , first volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. 25, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 11 .
Franziska Grimm: Josef Andre ( 1879-1950 ) - workers secretary and state executive of the Catholic workers' associations of the Diocese of Rottenburg , in " D'Kräz ", contributions to the history of the city and space Schramberg , issue 30 (2010), pp. 21-29

Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions of Baden and Württemberg in the “Third Reich”. Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818343-0-7 (with short biography, p. 109)

Web links

Commons : Josef Andre - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Josef Andre in the catalog of the German National Library
Josef Andre in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the "Third Reich". Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN p. 109.

personal data
SURNAME	Andre, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center), MdL, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schramberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1950
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the "Third Reich". Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN p. 109.