Rembert van Delden

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Rembert van Delden (born April 3, 1917 in Rheine ; † February 5, 1999 in Ahaus ) was a German textile merchant and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Rembert van Delden was born to the married couple Fritz Theodor van Delden and Anna Meta Caroline Eleonore Weiss and grew up with his uncle Gerrit Jan after his father was a victim of the First World War in Flanders in 1918 . After graduating from high school in 1935, van Delden joined the Navy , initially did military service and then embarked on an officer career. During the Second World War he was used as a sea pilot and submarine driver from 1939 to 1941, but ended up in British captivity, from which he was released in 1946.

Van Delden graduated from a state technical center for the textile industry in Reutlingen in 1947/48 , worked as a textile merchant after passing the final exam and was a member of the board of the Westphalian Jute Spinning and Weaving Company in Ahaus from 1956. This company was founded in 1883 by his grandfather Ysaak van Delden and his brother Jan as well as uncles Gerrit van Delden and Matthieu van Delden and grew into Europe's largest jute mill. In 1999 the company went bankrupt after it was renamed Textilwerke Ahaus AG in 1972 and taken over in 1987 by the Gronau cotton spinning mill (part of the van Delden group ). From 1957 to 1990 he was a board member of the Jute Industry Association. He also held the post of Vice President of the Association des Industries du Jute Européennes in Paris .

Political party

Since 1956 van Delden was a member of the CDU.

MP

Van Delden had been a councilor for the Ammeln community since 1959 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1976. He was always drawn into parliament via the state list of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia .

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