Karl Pelte

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Karl Pelte (born July 14, 1908 in Berlin , † April 30, 1962 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German politician (CDU). From 1955 to 1962 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Pelte enjoyed a humanistic education at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he graduated from high school in 1927. He then studied law and political science in Berlin. He had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2,659,564) and had been in the SS since 1935 at the latest (SS number 185047). From July 15, 1936, he went to the administrative service of the Navy in Wilhelmshaven. After completing his legal traineeship, he passed the second major state examination in January 1937 in January 1937. In the following September he was appointed to the Marine Directorate Council. In 1942 he was made chief executive officer.

After the end of the Second World War he was in British captivity until 1946. After his release in 1947, he first worked as a farm worker on the island of Fehmarn. In March 1949 he became a clerk for former Wehrmacht assets at the regional finance president of Hanover and remained so until March 1950. He then became operations director and authorized signatory in a textile industry plant in Wilhelmshaven. He was also the executive chairman of the CDU district association in Wilhelmshaven.

For the CDU, Pelte was elected to the City Council of Wilhelmshaven in November 1952, where he was parliamentary group leader of the right-wing bloc until 1955. He then moved into the Lower Saxony state parliament , to which he belonged from May 6, 1955, in the third and fourth electoral terms. From May 11, 1959 until his death, he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 288.

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Peter Klausch : On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period (PDF; 1.8 MB) p. 21