Karl Hübner (politician)

Karl Huebner (born November 6, 1897 in Berlin ; † December 20, 1965 ) was a German politician ( FDP , later FVP , FDV and CDU ).

Life and work

After attending secondary school , Hübner joined the high-level telecommunications service of the Deutsche Reichspost in 1914 . From 1936 to 1945 he worked in the Reichspostzentralamt. When the Reichspost was dissolved in 1945, it was first transferred to the Berlin magistrate post and then to the central administration for post and telecommunications in the Soviet-occupied zone. In 1948 he was dismissed there for political reasons and instead head of the post and telecommunications school office (West) Berlin. There he was an expert on telegraphy issues. In the 1950s he was deputy chairman of the German Post Association .

Political party

Hübner became a member of the LDPD in 1945 . Since he lived in Wilmersdorf and thus in West Berlin, he became a member of the FDP when the Federal FDP was founded in 1948.

On February 23, 1956, he left the FDP and a short time later founded the Free People's Party (FVP) with the FDP ministerial wing. Their Berlin regional association did not take part in the merger with the German party , which took place at the beginning of 1957 , but founded the Free German People's Party (FDV) on August 2, 1957, which in addition to Hübner u. a. also six members of the Berlin House of Representatives belonged. After the dissolution of the FDV due to the election debacle in the Berlin House of Representatives elections in 1958 , he became a member of the CDU on January 1, 1959.

MP

From 1947 to 1950, Hübner was a district representative in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He then belonged to the Berlin House of Representatives until his election to the Bundestag.

Since January 31, 1952, Hübner was a member of the German Bundestag as a Berlin deputy . He was initially elected on the proposal of the FDP parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives. After leaving the party, he belonged to the FVP and later the DP / FVP parliamentary group until early 1957. At the suggestion of the FDV parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, he was sent back to the Bundestag in 1957 , making him the only representative of this party in parliament. There he joined the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as an intern. When he joined the party in early 1959, he also became a member of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, to which he was re-elected in 1961 and to which he was a member of the CDU until 1965.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 368.