Josef Hufnagel (politician)

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Josef Hufnagel (right) with Heinrich Hamacher at the medal ceremony in 1965

Josef Hufnagel (born January 13, 1900 in Kreuztal ; † February 9, 1982 in Münster ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Hufnagel, the Roman Catholic faith was completed by the elementary school a shoemaker training that being used in the First World War was interrupted. After the war he joined the trade union movement. From 1919 he was chairman of a local branch of the Free Trade Union and attended advanced training schools of the German Federation of Trade Unions . In the Second World War he was a soldier again.

Hufnagel was married and had three children.

Political party

Hufnagel had been a member of the SPD since 1931. After the Second World War he participated in the rebuilding of the party in Münster. From 1946 he was party secretary and was elected chairman of the SPD sub-district of Münster.

MP

From 1946 to 1969 Hufnagel was a member of the city council in Münster (Westphalia).

From 1953 to 1969 he was a member of the German Bundestag . He was always elected to parliament via the state list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia .

Public offices

From 1952 to 1969 Hufnagel was mayor of the city of Münster.

honors and awards

Hufnagel received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1965 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 17th edition. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 466.