Karl Grueter

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Candidate poster for the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1970

Karl Grüter (born August 29, 1920 in Riesenbeck , Steinfurt district ; † January 17, 2006 ) was a German trade unionist and CDU politician .

education and profession

Karl Grüter attended elementary school and vocational school . He did an apprenticeship as a machinist . He then pursued this activity. Grueter do military service. From 1947 to 1958 he was managing director of the industrial union for construction, stones and earth in Solingen - Remscheid . He was union secretary at the German Trade Union Confederation , Tecklenburg district , from 1958.

politics

After the Second World War , Karl Grüter initially belonged to the center , for which he ran unsuccessfully on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia in the 1953 federal election. Later he founded the Independent Christian-Social Voters' Association , with which he immediately achieved an absolute majority in Riesenbeck in the local elections in 1961 and thus became mayor there. In 1964 he transferred the UCSW to the CDU. He was then from 1965 to 1968 a member of the district board of the CDU district of Tecklenburg and from 1968 to 1974 deputy district chairman. Until the municipal reform in 1975, Grüter remained mayor of the municipality of Riesenbeck. He acted as a member of the Tecklenburg district council and the representative of the Riesenbeck office. From 1975 he was deputy mayor of the city of Hörstel .

Karl Grüter was a directly elected member of the 7th and 8th state parliaments of North Rhine-Westphalia for the constituency 085 Tecklenburg from July 26, 1970 to May 28, 1980 .

Honors

  • 1980: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

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