Josef Grunner

Josef Grunner (born June 10, 1904 in Atzelsdorf, Michelhausen , † November 27, 1984 ) was an Austro-German lawyer , journalist and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Grunner was born into a working-class family in Austria . After attending school, he first worked as an electrical mechanic and later switched to industry as a commercial clerk. On the second educational path, he passed the Abitur at a secondary school in Vienna in 1927 . Then he took a degree in law at the University of Vienna in which he in 1934 with the graduation to the Dr. jur. finished. He moved to Germany in 1940 and settled in Berlin . Because of his marriage to the daughter of a Russian Jew, he was detained in 1944 for half a year in a work camp run by the Todt Organization for “ Jewish Versippte ” ( Sonderkommando J ) in Saxony .

In 1945/46 Grunner was head of the legal department of the Central Industry Administration for the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ). After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , he worked as a journalist and from 1946 to 1955 he worked as an editor and "department head for politics from the western zones of occupation" at the telegraph and the night dispatch . In 1953 he received German citizenship.

Political party

Grunner had joined the SPÖ in 1921 . In 1945 he was one of the founders of the SPD in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , was chairman of the local district association in 1947/48 and was elected to the regional executive committee of the Berlin Social Democrats in 1949. In 1946 he had also founded the Marxist Working Group.

MP

As a Berlin MP, Grunner was a member of the German Bundestag from June 11, 1957, when he replaced the deceased MP Louise Schroeder , until his resignation on June 21, 1957.

Public offices

From 1955 to 1964, Grunner was city councilor for economy and nutrition and head of the housing office in the Schöneberg district of Berlin . From 1964 to 1969 he was the district mayor here.

literature

• 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 , p. 285.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ baptismal register Pf. Michelhausen, tom. XI, fol. 35 ( facsimile ).
2. ^ Susanne Grebner: The telegraph. Creation of a licensed newspaper close to the SPD in Berlin from 1946 to 1950 . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4540-0 . (P. 141)