Karl Vittinghoff

Karl Vittinghoff (born April 11, 1899 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 1, 1976 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Vittinghoff attended elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer. From 1917 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier and was deployed in the naval aviation . After the end of the war he worked as a metal worker.

Vittinghoff joined the SPD in 1918. On April 20, 1952, he was elected to succeed Karl Meitmann as regional chairman of the SPD Hamburg . From 1952 to 1964 he was also chairman of the SPD district of Hamburg-Nordwest. When he resigned his post for reasons of age at the state party conference on May 13, 1966, it was not Helmut Schmidt , as expected , but Paul Nevermann who was elected as his successor.

In the city council elections in Hamburg in 1953 , Vittinghoff was elected as a member of the Hamburg city council, to which he belonged until 1970. In the Bundestag elections in 1957 and 1961 , he ran for position 20 on the state list of the Hamburg SPD, but was unable to move into the German Bundestag as a member of the Bundestag .

literature

• Vittinghoff, Karl . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Udert to Vullgraff] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1294 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 116 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal states: Hamburg: Just too good . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1966, pp. 32-33 ( Online - May 23, 1966 ).