Karl Brunner (politician, 1905)

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Karl Brunner (born April 12, 1905 in Berlin , † November 13, 1951 in Neuwied ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Karl Brunner completed a teacher training course . But since he could not find a job, he first worked as a telephone operator for the Berlin editorial offices of several foreign newspapers. He later worked as a press stenographer and editor . After 1945 he moved to the Rhineland , where he was initially editor of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne . In 1947 he became editor-in-chief of the Neue Ruhr Zeitung in Essen . In 1949 he was elected chairman of the Rhenish-Westphalian Association of Journalists and Deputy Chairman of the Northwest German Association of Journalists.

In the first federal election in 1949 , he was elected to parliament via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia, to which he belonged until his early death in 1951. He was vice-chairman of the Committee on Press, Radio and Film, and a member of the Committee on Frontier Affairs.

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