Josef Donsberger

Josef Donsberger (born February 23, 1898 in Höchstädt an der Donau , † March 20, 1963 in Nuremberg ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

After attending primary school, Donsberger trained as a stonemason . During the First World War he was in the military and military service and until 1920 in the hospital . After the end of the war he attended some commercial courses at the Upper Bavarian Invalid School and then switched to the Augsburg Railway Directorate as a civil servant candidate . He studied at the University of Economics and Social Sciences in Nuremberg and at the Nuremberg Commercial College . From 1924 until his dismissal in 1933, he worked as an association official and district manager at the Bavarian Railway Association in the Nuremberg Railway Directorate. After five years of unemployment, he was employed by various companies and authorities from 1938 to 1945. He then headed the Catholic People's Office in Nuremberg for a year. In 1947 he was a co-founder of the civil service organization in Bavaria, from 1950 to 1963 he was second state chairman of the Federation of Bavarian Civil Service Associations, he was also a member of the main board of the German Association of Civil Servants , the Bavarian Constitutional Court and the supervisory board of Sebaldus-Verlag GmbH .

Donsberger was a member of the Bavarian People's Party from 1920 to 1933 . After the Second World War he was a co-founder of the CSU in Nuremberg. In the CSU he was a member of the state executive from 1946 to 1962 with a two-year break and from 1959 was chairman of the civil servants' association. From December 1, 1946 to November 23, 1958, he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and in the first electoral term also a member of the board of the state parliamentary group. From January 1, 1960 until his death he was a member of the Bavarian Senate for the group of trade unions.

Web links

• Josef Donsberger in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History