Norbert Engel

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Norbert Engel (left) with Oskar Lafontaine , Erich Honecker and Herbert Häber in Berlin (1982)

Norbert Engel (born August 27, 1921 in Heidelberg ; † April 21, 2009 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

The miner's son from Schiffweiler worked as a craftsman after primary school. During the Second World War, he served in the Navy as a medical mate from 1940 . After expressing his regret over the failure of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler , he was sentenced to death by a court martial, but he was able to escape and go into hiding in the Netherlands. After the war he was employed by the Rheydt employment office from 1945 to 1946 and, from 1946, an administrative clerk at the Schiffweiler administration.

From 1946 Engel became politically active in the Social Democratic Party of Saarland , which he left again because of its pro-French course. Instead, he joined the German Social Democratic Party (DSP) as a founding member in 1952 , which campaigned for the reintegration of the Saarland into the Federal Republic and was therefore not approved by the Saar government. For the DSP, which operated underground until 1955, Engel primarily established contacts with the trade unions.

After the rejection of the European Saar Statute in October 1955 and the approval of West German parties in Saarland, Engel joined the SPD and was elected to the Saarland Landtag in December of the same year . He was a member of the parliament until 1975. He was a member of the SPD state executive for just as long, and from 1977 to 1991 he was deputy state chairman of the SPD.

Engel was particularly well known as the President of the Saarland Chamber of Labor (1957–1986) and Chairman of the Borussia Neunkirchen sports club (1959–1968). He was also chairman of the DGB Saar and a member of the state board of the ÖTV . From 1971 to 2002 he was also a member of the board of directors of Saarländischer Rundfunk . In 1975 he was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit . Since 2007 he has been the holder of the community medal of the community of Schiffweiler.

He and his wife Margot Engel had a total of five children. However, one of these children died early after birth.

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  • Manual. State Parliament of the Saarland. 1957
  • Joachim Penner: Politically in the best sense of the word. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. August 27, 1996
  • He helped shape the post-war period. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. August 27, 2001
  • Rolf Purper: Medals for committed citizens. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. January 8, 2007
  • Who is who? Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck 1986 (XXV. Edition). P. 290. ISBN 3-7950-2006-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SPD politician Norbert Engel died at the age of 87. Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ Virtual monument "Righteous people of care": Norbert Engel . Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  3. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 34 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken July 11, 1975, p. 870 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2009