Kurt Angstmann

Kurt Angstmann (* thirtieth June 1915 in Mannheim ; † 12. February 1978 in Heidelberg ) was a German politician of the SPD and finance minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Life

Angstmann attended elementary and secondary school, where he graduated from high school in 1935. Because of his membership in the socialist workers' youth , he did not receive a study permit. He attended the high commercial school and made a commercial apprenticeship. From 1941 to 1944 he was a department head at Zellstoff Waldhof in Berlin. In 1944 he was denounced and taken to the Rossau camp near Zwickau as a laborer . After the war he trained as a teacher and worked in this profession from 1946. In 1956 he was appointed to the Mannheim State Engineering School , where he taught until his death.

After the Second World War , Angstmann became politically active in the SPD, of which he became a board member in Mannheim in 1952. As early as 1946 he was elected to the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden , where he was the youngest member of the SPD. He was also a member of the state parliament of the new federal state of Baden-Württemberg from 1952 to 1972. Among other things, he was chairman of the finance committee.

During the grand coalition under Prime Minister Hans Filbinger , Angstmann was Baden-Württemberg's Finance Minister from 1966 to 1968. From 1971 to 1975 he was also a member of the Mannheim municipal council .

Private

In 1945, Angstmann married the daughter of the Mannheim social democrat Jakob Trumpfheller Anneliese. They had three children.

Angstmann's grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim

Honorary positions and honors

Angstmann also held several honorary positions during his political career. Among other things, he was a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Basic Rights Mannheim-Heidelberg and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus AG . He was the district chairman of the German Forest Protection Association , professor at the Mannheim State Engineering School and advisory board member at several universities.

For his services, Angstmann was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1965 and the Mannheim Ring of Honor in 1976. He was also an honorary senator of the Universities of Hohenheim and Mannheim .

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Münkel and Franz Bernhard (arrangement): The cemeteries in Mannheim. Guide to the graves of well-known Mannheim personalities . Südwestdeutsche VA, Mannheim 1992, p. 210, ISBN 3-87804-213-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fear man, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1978
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Wolfgang Münkel and Franz Bernhard (arrangement): The cemeteries in Mannheim. Guide to the graves of well-known Mannheim personalities . Südwestdeutsche VA, Mannheim 1992, p. 210, ISBN 3-87804-213-2 .