Josef Arndgen

Candidate poster Josef Arndgens for the 1953 Bundestag election

Josef Arndgen (born February 24, 1894 in Rheydt ; † September 20, 1966 in Wiesbaden ) was a German CDU politician .

Life and work

Arndgen attended elementary school , was a trained plasterer and from 1912 worked in a shoe factory as a leather worker. He was one of the few professing Catholics who were initially not active in the Catholic but in the secular labor movement during the Weimar Republic . After the First World War he became chairman of the ADGB for Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . In 1930 he switched to the Catholic labor movement and in 1931 became Reich Chairman of the Central Association of Christian Leather Workers in Germany. After the trade unions were banned by the National Socialists , he was arrested several times. At that time he worked as a grocer.

After the Second World War , Arndgen was involved in rebuilding the trade unions in the state of Hesse .

1952 to 1954 he was federal election commissioner for the social elections .

Political party

In 1931 Arndgen joined the Center Party , to which he belonged until it was dissolved in 1933. After the Second World War, he helped found the CDU in Frankfurt am Main .

MP

From 1946 to 1949 Arndgen was a member of the state parliament in Hesse .

Since the first federal election in 1949 , Arndgen was a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Limburg constituency until 1965 . He was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committees for social policy (1949–1957) and issues relating to victims of war and prisoners of war (1949–1953). From 1957 to November 13, 1958, he was chairman of the Bundestag Labor Committee. From October 28, 1958 to 1965, Arndgen was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . From 1949 to 1965 he was also chairman of the workers' group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

In 1959 he and Carlo Schmid ( SPD ), Walther Kühn ( FDP ) and Ludwig Schneider ( DP ) were one of the initiators of old-age, disability and survivors' benefits for MPs after the accidental death of MP Josef Gockeln , whose surviving dependents became social cases.

Public offices

From January 7, 1947 to November 9, 1949, Arndgen was the Hessian Minister of State for Labor and Welfare .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 199 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 56.
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 18-19.

Web links

• Arndgen, Josef. Hessian biography. (As of February 24, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).