Karl Bartunek

Karl Bartunek (born September 7, 1906 in Prague , † February 7, 1984 in Karlsruhe ) was a German administrative officer and politician ( GB / BHE ).

Life and work

Bartunek was born the son of a senior government councilor. After graduating from elementary school and attending the humanistic grammar school in Prague, he began studying chemistry at the German Technical University in Prague , which he completed in 1931 with an examination as a graduate engineer. He then did military service in the army of Czechoslovakia . He worked as a research assistant from 1933 to 1937, and received his doctorate in 1936 as Dr.-Ing. and then entered the Czechoslovak civil service. First he worked at the State Hallmarking Office in Prague, then at the Hallmarking Office in Mährisch-Trübau .

Bartunek took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was most recently a prisoner of war. After his release, he and his family were expelled in June 1946. Initially based in Eutingen , he moved to Karlsruhe in 1948. He joined the Baden state service as a government councilor in 1946 and later worked as a senior councilor at the Karlsruhe Trade Inspectorate, which he took over from 1961 until his retirement in 1970.

In addition to his professional activity, Bartunek participated in the establishment of organizations for displaced persons. From 1947 to 1949 he was state chairman of the interest group of resettled Germans (IDAD) which he founded. Bartunek campaigned for a merger of the various associations of displaced persons. In October 1949 he won a battle vote against Linus Kather and became chairman of the Central Association of Expelled Germans, ZvD. On the day of his election, Bartunek announced his retirement from this post. He gave professional reasons for this, but the disputes within the association were likely to have been decisive. Bartunek now concentrated his work on North Baden. From 1949 to 1954 he was regional chairman of the regional association of expelled Germans (LvD) in North Baden and subsequently chairman of the BvD district association in North Baden.

He was married to Rita, nee Podsednik, and had one child.

politics

In 1949, Bartunek and Wilhelm Mattes founded the Emergency Community of War Victims and Displaced Persons (NKV) in Württemberg-Baden , from which the state association of the GB / BHE emerged in 1950. In 1952/53 he was a member of the state constitutional assembly and from 1953 to 1964 a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament . Here he was from 1954 to 1956 and from 1960 to 1964 chairman of the GB / BHE and GDP / BHE parliamentary groups. From 1961 he was a member of the GDP / BHE in Baden-Württemberg through the merger of GB / BHE and the German party .

Honors

• 1964: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1982: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

literature

Marquet, Andreas, Displaced Persons Policy in the German Southwest after 1945. The founding of BdV and BHE as reflected in the estate of Karl Bartunek. Saarbrücken 2008.