Karl Steitz

Karl Steitz (born July 19, 1890 in Ransweiler ; † January 26, 1966 there ) was a German teacher and politician ( CDU ).

Steitz, who was a Protestant denomination, attended elementary school and secondary school in Weierhof as well as the Alsenz agricultural school and the agricultural school in Kaiserslautern. During the First World War he did military service and then worked as a farmer. After taking over his father's business, he co-founded the Nordpfälzer Zentralmolkerei in 1928 and one of the first tractor communities in 1939. In 1939 the Gestapo issued a warning for “behavior that was harmful to the state”.

After the Second World War he became a member of the CDU and was a member of the Ransweiler municipal council from 1945 to 1960. From December 31, 1946, he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly in place of Gustav Wolff , but according to the attendance lists, he does not seem to have taken up the mandate.

In 1919 he became a member of the supervisory board of the Palatinate Agricultural Bank. He was a co-founder and, since 1924, the district chairman of the unionized free peasantry and co-founder of the provisional Chamber of Agriculture Palatinate in Kaiserslautern. In 1945 he became a member and since 1947 chairman of the agricultural committee of the district of Rockenhausen, member of the district committee and the district chamber of farmers of the Palatinate.

He was the editor of several volumes of the farmers' calendar Scholle und Heimat .

Awards

- Federal Cross of Merit Second Class (?)

literature

• The President of the State Parliament of 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 . 1st edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04751-1 , p. 681 .

Web links

• Entry on Karl Steitz in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database