Karl Sommerey

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Karl Sommerey (born February 7, 1897 in Lugowen , Insterburg district , † December 3, 1966 in Homburg ) was a German expellee functionary and politician ( FDP ).

Life

Sommerey attended secondary school in Insterburg and then began a commercial apprenticeship in the paper wholesale business, which he completed in 1921, after participating in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. He then worked as a commercial employee and from 1924 to 1926 as an independent representative. He then joined the Reichswehr as a professional soldier . He was later taken over by the Wehrmacht , took part in the Second World War as a soldier and became a British prisoner of war as a major.

After his release from captivity, Sommerey earned his living as a lumberjack, farm worker and construction worker. In 1948 he became commercial director and authorized signatory. In addition to his professional activity, he campaigned for the needs of the displaced . In 1950 he was the founder of the regional associations of the Landsmannschaften East and West Prussia in Trier and worked in the area as chairman of the working group of all Landsmannschaften. In 1953 he was elected chairman of the presidium and speaker assembly of the newly founded association of country teams in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Sommerey joined the CDU after 1945 and shortly after switched to the FDP. In the state elections in 1951 , he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he was a member until 1955, from a list of the FDP . In Parliament he was a member of the Committee on Social Policy and the Committee on Displaced Persons.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 666–667.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the country team work in ... Rhineland-Palatinate. (PDF; 16.5 MB) In: The Ostpreußenblatt . May 5, 1953, p. 28 , accessed July 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Sommerey, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expellee functionary and politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugowen , Insterburg district
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1966
Place of death Homburg