Josef Burger (politician)

Josef Burger (born July 3, 1900 in Ewattingen , † November 16, 1972 in Bonndorf in the Black Forest ) was a German farmer and politician ( ZENTRUM / BCSV / CDU ).

The Catholic Josef Burger was born on July 3, 1900 in Ewattingen. Having the local elementary school had attended, he learned at the school of agriculture Waldshut the profession of farmer . He then worked on his father's farm, but at the age of 14 he was drafted into military service, which he served until the end of the First World War in 1918. When he married in 1930, he took over his father's farm. From 1926 to 1933, Burger was publicly active in the German Center Party . He was also drafted into military service from 1939 to the end of May 1940 during the Second World War .

After the war in 1946/47, Burger took up political activities in the parliamentary group of the Baden Christian Social People's Party (BCSV) in the committee of the Baden Consultative State Assembly and became a member of the Baden State Constituent Assembly . He was also elected to the local council of Ewattingen and in November 1946 to the district council of the Neustadt district assembly. After the incorporation of the BCSV into the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), he continued to be politically active for this party, and in December 1948 he was elected mayor of Ewattingen by a large majority. From 1947 until the state of Baden-Württemberg was founded in 1952, he was a member of the Baden state parliament in the first (extended) legislative period of his party. Then he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the first three terms from 1952 to 1964.

Burger died on November 16, 1972 in Bonndorf in the Black Forest. He had four children. In 1964 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his services .

literature

• Werner Breunig et al .: Constitutional Policy 2: Data Handbook for Land Parliamentarians 1945–1953. ed. Frank R. Pfetsch. Frankfurt, Bern, New York: Lang, 1985. ISBN 3820483438 , ISSN  0178-2444
• Paul Feuchte: Sources on the creation of the constitution of the state of Baden from 1947. Part 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ( publications on the constitutional history of Baden-Württemberg since 1945. Volume 15), ISBN 3-17-015059-6 .
• Walter Habel: Who is who? 15 (1). Berlin: arani, 1967.
• Wilhelm Kosch: Biographisches Staats Handbuch 1. Bern: Francke, 1963.
• Josef Weik: Member of the Bundestag and Landtag history of Baden-Württemberg 1945–1984. With a list of the delegates from Baden and Württemberg 1919–1933. Complete biographical directory of the representatives of the states of Baden, Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern 1946–1952, Baden-Württemberg 1952–1984. 3. Edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-91327-0 .
• Handbook of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg 3. 1960.