Klaus Köberle

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Klaus Köberle (born February 11, 1931 in Hamburg ; † January 24, 2008 ) was a German politician ( BHE , CDU ). From 1960 to 1967 he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . Köberle is considered one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) Schleswig-Holstein, of which he became first chairman in 1971.

Life and work

Before 1945, Köberle attended elementary and secondary school , initially in Berlin , and at the end of the war he was in the boarding school in Leiperitz in the Sudetenland . The then 14-year-old Köberle fled on foot to his grandparents in Eutin . There he worked in agriculture and as a wood turner after his escape . After continuing high school, he graduated from high school in 1949. He studied law and political science in Kiel as a working student . He initially worked as a clerk, then as a department head at the Landesbankand Girozentrale Schleswig-Holstein (economic fund for refugees) in Kiel. After leaving the state parliament, he worked as managing director of the state guarantee fund for the rescue and settlement of jobs, then in WOBAU, and then again as managing director of the guarantee bank .

politics

Köberle became a founding member of the BHE in 1950. In 1955 he left the BHE and joined the CDU and the Junge Union . Köberle was Schleswig-Holstein's state chairman of the Junge Union from 1961 to 1964. Later he was temporarily a member of the state executive committee of the CDU and chairman of the state committee for social policy.

Köberle ran in the state elections in 1958, but initially missed entry into the state parliament. He then became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament on February 16, 1960, when he moved up to the state parliament for the late Hans Jakob Franzenburg during the fourth electoral term . In the following state election in 1962, he was elected to the Kiel state parliament via the CDU state list and was a member of parliament until April 28, 1967. During this time, the lawyer and banking specialist Köberle worked as an expert on the finance committee. In addition, he was active as a committed social politician in the Social Committee, which was then still known as the Committee for People's Welfare. In 1967, the state parliament decided that a member of parliament was incompatible with professional activity in companies in which the state was involved, whereupon Köberle decided to become a professional and not a professional politician.

Köberle was still politically active on a voluntary basis, he was involved in the Christian-social wing of the CDU. He is considered to be the founder of the CDA Schleswig-Holstein. He had been involved in the preparation since 1966 and after the CDU state party conference in December 1970 had confirmed the CDA as an association of the CDU, Köberle became first chairman of the CDA Schleswig-Holstein in 1971. The success of the CDA impressed with the CDU, which further developed in Schleswig-Holstein to the People's Party developed.

Köberle was a board member of the trade, banking and insurance union .

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SURNAME Köberle, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (BHE, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2008