Karl Mocker

Karl Mocker (born November 22, 1905 in Horatitz , Bohemia ; † July 17, 1996 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , later CDU ).

Life and work

Mocker received his doctorate in law in 1929 and then worked as a lawyer in Komotau in the Sudetenland. After the Second World War, Mocker came to Schwäbisch Gmünd as a displaced person and settled there again as a lawyer. Mocker had been chairman of the state association of expelled Germans in Württemberg since 1949.

Political party

In the 1930s Mocker was a member of the Sudeten German Party , after the Sudetenland was annexed to the NSDAP in 1938 . In 1949 Mocker was one of the founders of the emergency community of expellees in Württemberg-Baden . In 1950 he participated in the founding of the GB / BHE. In 1971 Mocker joined the CDU.

MP

For the GB / BHE Mocker moved into the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden in 1950 and was initially deputy chairman of the DG / BHE parliamentary group. As chairman of the "National Association of Expelled Germans" in Baden-Württemberg, he signed the charter of German expellees . The faction of the BHE achieved that the “right to the homeland” postulated in this charter was included in the state constitution. When the DG / BHE parliamentary group split up shortly before the state elections for all of Baden-Württemberg in 1952, Mocker became chairman of the BHE parliamentary group. In 1952 he was elected to the state parliament of the new state of Baden-Württemberg , which he resigned on March 9, 1954. His successor was Alexander Eschenbach . In 1953 Mocker made the leap into the German Bundestag , to which he belonged until 1957. In the Bundestag he was initially deputy chairman of his parliamentary group before he became parliamentary group chairman on March 15, 1955. From 1956 to 1964 Mocker was again a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg and therefore resigned from his position as parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag on April 26, 1956.

Public offices

On June 8, 1972, Mocker succeeded Josef Schwarz as State Secretary for issues relating to displaced persons in Baden-Württemberg. For reasons of age, he resigned from this office when the new government was formed on June 2, 1976.

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. 570.
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon . With selected people from the former administrative district of Eger. Volume 1: A-M. Weinmann, Männedorf 1985, p. 354.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heike Amos: Associations of Expellees in the Crosshairs. Activities of the GDR State Security 1949 to 1989 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70589-8 , p. 164.