Paul Hofstetter

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Paul Hofstetter (born February 5, 1907 in Botnang , † February 16, 1983 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending school, Hofstetter completed an apprenticeship as a printer at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart from 1921 to 1925 . He later passed the examination as a master printer. He worked in Stuttgart printing houses until 1932, from 1933 to 1935 as a print shop manager and from 1935 as an independent book printer . During the Weimar Republic he was involved in the educational association of German book printers. In addition, he was a functionary of the SAJ and the trade union youth from 1921 to 1933 . In 1925 he had joined the SPD. From 1939 to 1945 he worked as a commercial clerk and deputy department head at Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart-Feuerbach .

After the Second World War Hofstetter took part in the re-establishment of the SPD in Stuttgart, for which he sat on the local council from 1946 to 1949 . He found a job from 1946 to 1947 as a department head in the Württemberg-Baden Ministry of Economics (Iron and Metals Department). In addition, he was one of the founders of the cultural community of the Württemberg trade union federation, organized the establishment of the workers' welfare and was state chairman of the AWO Württemberg-Baden and Baden-Württemberg from 1951 to 1972 . In addition, he was co-founder and chairman of the League of Free Welfare Care in Baden-Württemberg from 1956 to 1971 and, since 1968, deputy chairman of the Association of German Volksbühnenvereine.

Hofstetter was from October 12, 1949, when he replaced the retired member Willi Lausen , member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . In the state elections in 1950 he was able to move into the state parliament again via the Stuttgart I constituency .

During the formation of the Southwest state he was in the election to the constituent state assembly in 1952 on the national list chosen and was then to 1956 deputy in the parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg . In the state elections in 1960 , 1964 and 1968 , he managed to re-enter parliament through the Stuttgart III constituency, to which he was a member until 1972. In the first two election dates he won the direct mandate , in 1968 only the second mandate .

Paul Hofstetter was married to Lisa Hauser and had two children.

Honors

literature

  • Landtag of Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): MdL, The Members of the Landtag in Baden-Württemberg 1946–1978. Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 , p. 133.
  • Frank-Roland Kühnel: State Parliaments, Members of Parliament and Constituencies in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2009. Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-923476-01-5 , p. 205.
  • Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Volume 16. Arani, Berlin 1970, p. 526.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch: Lexicon of Politics, Press and Journalism Volume 1. Francke, Bern / Munich 1959, p. 557.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgart Memorial Day Calendar. Retrieved December 28, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 139, July 28, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Hofstetter, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Botnang
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1983
Place of death Stuttgart