Josef Janota

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Josef Janota (born February 22, 1911 in Zlabings , Moravia ; † March 18, 1994 in Augsburg ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , GDP , SPD ).

Life

After attending middle school, Janota learned the painting trade and then worked as a carpentry, church and decoration painter. He then worked briefly at the tax office in Waidhofen an der Thaya . He had been doing military service since 1935, embarked on a career as a professional soldier with the mountain troops, and from 1939 to 1945 participated as a soldier in World War II , most recently as a sergeant major in tank reconnaissance.

After the surrender in May 1945 , Janota was employed by the Red Army for stewardship with the auxiliary police and commissioned by the occupiers to paint signs. In June 1945 he was expelled from Czechoslovakia . He then fled to Austria with his family and initially found shelter in the Melk camp as a displaced person , before he was also expelled from Austria in the spring of 1946 as an " Reich German ". On March 30, 1946, he took the train from Upper Austria to West Germany . He then settled in Schwäbisch Gmünd , where he and his family were given an apartment and he worked as a painter.

Janota began to get involved in associations of expellees and has held meetings for their local associations since autumn 1946. In 1947 he worked for a short time as a security guard at ZF Lenksysteme , which was controlled by the US military government during this time . Due to his now full-time work in the "Aid Association for New Citizens", from which the Federation of Expellees (BdV) later emerged, he was elected spokesman for the expellees for the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd . In November 1947 he was elected to the local council and the district council . In both committees, he held the position of parliamentary group leader of the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (BHE). Furthermore, he was chairman of the BHE district association and managing director of BdV Schwäbisch Gmünd.

After the establishment of the BHE at the state level, Janota was elected as a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden in the state elections in 1950 , to which he belonged until its dissolution in 1952. He was not a member of the Constituent Assembly country and therefore a candidate in the parliamentary elections in 1953 on a list Square GB / BHE for the Bundestag . However, the election was unsuccessful for him. In the state elections in 1956 and 1960 , he was then able to move into the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg as a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg through a second mandate from the Schwäbisch Gmünd constituency . From 1960 to 1961 he was deputy chairman of the BHE parliamentary group.

After the GB / BHE lost votes in the 1961 Bundestag elections and merged with the German Party (DP) to form the All-German Party (GDP), it formed a new parliamentary group in June 1961, to which all former BHE members belonged. Janota was the deputy chairman of the GDP parliamentary group from 1961 to 1963 and joined the SPD on November 6, 1963, as the GDP was also in the process of being dissolved. On November 15, 1963, he moved with Robert Maresch to the SPD parliamentary group. In 1964 he left the state parliament, but remained a member of the local council and district council in Schwäbisch Gmünd until 1975.

Josef Janota was married and had five children. After his death in 1994 he was buried in the Leonhard Cemetery in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

literature

  • Landtag of Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): MdL, The Members of the Landtag in Baden-Württemberg 1946–1978. Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 , p. 136.
  • Frank-Roland Kühnel: State Parliaments, Members of Parliament and Constituencies in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2009. Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-923476-01-5 , p. 206.
  • Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Volume 14. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1962, p. 672.
  • Thomas Schnabel: Witnesses to the reconstruction. Neckar Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1985, ISBN 978-3-7883-0844-5 , pp. 206-208 ( online ; PDF; 27 kB).
  • Janota, Josef . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ibach to Jutzi] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 561 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 149 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Sonntag : New party course: bankruptcy - In Stuttgart, the legacy of the BHE is distributed between the SPD and CDU. In: Die Zeit Nr. 46 , November 15, 1963, accessed on December 29, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Janota, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GB / BHE, GDP, SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Zlabings
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1994
Place of death augsburg