Josef Stingl

Josef Stingl (born March 19, 1919 in Maria Kulm , Egerland , † March 19, 2004 in Leutesdorf am Rhein) was the long-time president of the Federal Labor Office , as well as a politician of the CDU and the CSU .

Life and work

Stingl was born as the son of a master baker in the Egerland. He attended high school in Eger , where he passed his Abitur in 1938. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Air Force . After being expelled from the Sudetenland , he came to Berlin in 1945. Until 1952 he made his way through various jobs as a construction worker and clerk in Berlin, with which he also financed his political science studies at the German University of Politics from 1949 to 1951.

From 1952 to 1968 he was employed by the IHK in Berlin . From May 2, 1968 to March 30, 1984 he was President of the Federal Labor Office . During his tenure, the headquarters of the BA was built in Nuremberg and the many small offices were combined. Due to his long tenure, the name found its way into everyday language . “I work at Stingl” was synonymous with “I'm unemployed”. As the herald of the monthly unemployment statistics, he earned himself the nickname “Bundesunke”. From 1983 to 1990 Stingl was honorary professor in Bamberg .

After his retirement, Josef Stingl was committed to the church and the rights of those who were expelled from their homeland . He was honorary chairman of the Sudeten German Ackermann community and, as a displaced person himself, campaigned for dialogue and reconciliation between Sudeten Germans and Czechs. He was also an honorary member of the KDSt.V. Nordgau Prague Stuttgart in the CV and member of the ND ( Bund Neudeutschland ). He died on his 85th birthday in Leutesdorf in the Rhineland, where he had moved to an old age after the death of his first wife and his second wife.

Political party

Stingl joined the CDU shortly after the Second World War . From 1951 he was deputy district chairman of the CDU in Reinickendorf , from 1956 deputy state chairman of the CDU in Berlin. 1964 to 1968 he was state chairman of the CDU Oder-Neisse . He was also a member of the federal executive committee from 1964 to 1973. In 1974 he moved to the CSU because of his residence in Taufkirchen (near Munich) . He made a name for himself as a social politician and saw himself as a lawyer for the unemployed.

MP

Stingl sat for the CDU in the Bundestag from 1953 to June 15, 1968 . He was instrumental in the pension reform and the Employment Promotion Act . From February 12, 1963, he was a member of the parliamentary committee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as chairman of the parliamentary group working group for social affairs and social policy until he left parliament . From 1965 he was also chairman of the Bundestag committee for social policy.

Honors

• 1942: Cup of honor for special achievement in the air war
• 1943: German cross in gold as first lieutenant
• 1971: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1972: Grand Officer of the Italian Order of Merit
• 1974: Commander-in-chief with the star of the Papal Order of Gregory
• 1976: Honorary Senator of the University of Mannheim
• 1979: Honorary doctorate from the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
• 1982: Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
• 1984: Heinrich Brauns Prize
• 1984: Large Federal Cross of Merit (1974) with star (1979) and shoulder ribbon (1984)
• 1984: Grand Cross of the Papal Order of Gregory
• 1984: European Charlemagne Prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 847-848.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Stingl in the catalog of the German National Library
• In memory of Josef Stingl (1919-2004)
• Josef Stingl in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)