Ludwig Altenhöfer

Ludwig Altenhöfer (born December 8, 1921 in Würzburg ; † December 26, 1974 there ) was a German writer, journalist and politician ( CSU ).

After graduating from high school, Altenhöfer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , and later philosophy, history and art history at the universities of Munich and Würzburg . After the Second World War he worked as a sculptor and journalist, and he was also editor-in-chief of several magazines and weekly newspapers, including the Allgemeine Deutsche Sonntagszeitung between 1961 and 1966 . He also belonged to numerous associations and clubs, where he was sometimes also chairman.

Altenhöfer's political activity began with the Catholic youth movement . In the time of National Socialism he led a resistance group and was a political prisoner. After the war he was recognized as a politically persecuted person. In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo . In 1945 he was a co-founder of the CSU and from then on its managing director and district manager of Lower Franconia . In the party he was district chairman of the Junge Union , local chairman, member of the district, district and state executive committee as well as the party congress and party committee. From 1962 to 1970 he was a member of the Lower Franconian District Assembly . On October 10, 1972, he replaced the retired Reinhold Vöth in the Bavarian state parliament, to which he was a member until the end of the electoral term, a few weeks before his death.

Works

Ludwig Altenhöfer: Aktion Grün - youth in resistance against the Nazi dictatorship . ISBN 978-3-87868-537-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ludwig Altenhöfer as an artist. In: mainpost.de. March 15, 2007, accessed November 9, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The heads of the resistance ( Memento from November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Ludwig Altenhöfer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History