Kurt Wolf (politician, 1921)

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Kurt Wolf (born September 29, 1921 in Cologne , † October 10, 1994 ) was a Saarland publisher and politician of the CVP , later the SVP and the FDP / DPS .

Life and work

Wolf completed his apprenticeship as a publishing clerk and worked in this profession before participating in the war from 1940 to 1944. After his release from captivity , he worked as a freelance agent, and in 1949 he switched to SARAG, a publishing house for telephone books based in Saarbrücken .

politics

In 1952, Wolf was elected second district chairman of the CVP in Saarlouis . In 1960 the SVP split off from this, Wolf joined the new party and took over the deputy state chairmanship. In the state elections in the same year , Wolf won a seat in the state parliament , where he was the first secretary of the presidium. In 1965 the SVP merged with the new CVP , for which Wolf ran unsuccessfully for the German Bundestag . In the state elections a few months earlier , the SVP fell to 5.2 percent, so Wolf was unable to defend his mandate. After the death of Erwin Müller , who was elected for the SVP and later transferred to the CDU , Wolf moved up to the state parliament on February 27, 1968. On March 15, he joined the SPD parliamentary group, six months later, on November 18, he switched to the FDP / DPS parliamentary group, within which he was elected treasurer the following year. In the state elections in 1970 the FDP / DPS, like the SVP, fell below the five percent hurdle. Wolf finally resigned from the state parliament, he also resigned the office of state treasurer, he now took over the management of the Saar branch of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Affären / Saar: With pleasure , in: Der Spiegel , issue 14/1971 of March 29, 1971
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician (CVP, SVP, FDP, DPS)
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1994