Josef Kiene

Josef Kiene (born May 28, 1895 in Bad Tölz , † January 30, 1981 in Trostberg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Kiene did an apprenticeship as a belt maker, until 1925 he worked in this profession. He studied labor law, economics and social science with a scholarship at the Arbeiter-Akademie Frankfurt am Main . He then spent a year traveling as a consultant for youth issues and as editor and managing director of the newspaper “Volksfreund” in Trostberg. He was the owner of a barber shop. In 1933 and from 1935 to 1936 he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp . During the Second World War he was foreman at the Fritz Lecher metal etching plant in Munich.

In 1945 Kiene became deputy district administrator in Traunstein . He was a member of the advisory state committee, the pre-parliament, the state constituent assembly and then from 1946 to 1970 a member of the Bavarian state parliament . He was always elected from the list in the constituency of Upper Bavaria . From 1948 to 1958 he was chairman of the SPD in the district of southern Bavaria and from 1951 to 1958 secretary of the SPD parliamentary group. In the 1950s and 1960s, Kiene was the first rapporteur on the Forest Rights Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament. He played a decisive role in the Forest Rights Act of 1958 and the Partial and Interest Forest Act of 1964. From 1958 to 1970 he was District Administrator of Traunstein.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BHStA, estate Kiene

Web links

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