Manfred Schumacher (politician, 1926)

Manfred Schumacher (born December 15, 1926 in Breitscheidt ; † February 20, 1977 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending elementary school in Breitscheidt and high school in Betzdorf put Schumacher 1944 Notabitur from. He did Reich labor service , was soon drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in the Second World War as a soldier . In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the United States, from which he was released in 1945. He then completed an administration apprenticeship.

Schumacher joined the SPD in 1946 and was one of the founders of the Jusos in the Rhineland / Hesse-Nassau district. For the SPD he worked full-time as party secretary in Altenkirchen from 1947, and from 1953 he acted as managing director of the SPD sub-district of Montabaur. Furthermore, he was district chairman of the workers' welfare in the Unterwesterwaldkreis and a member of the ÖTV .

From 1952 Schumacher was a member of the district council of the Unterwesterwaldkreis. In the state elections in 1959 , he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he belonged until his resignation on December 31, 1962.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 639.