Richard Rauch (politician)
Richard Ernst Rauch (born December 6, 1897 in Wolmünster , † April 20, 1977 in Saarbrücken ) was a German mining and trade union functionary as well as a politician of the SPS and the DSP .
Life
Rauch completed his apprenticeship as a locksmith, in which he then worked. Politically, he was initially active in the KPD , later he joined the SPD / SPS , where he acted as a functionary in Dudweiler. After the Saar referendum , he emigrated to France in 1935 . On July 12, 1941, he was arrested in Montbard and then imprisoned in the Saarbrücken prison Lerchesflur and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1945 he returned to the Saar area.
In 1950 Rauch was elected the first chairman of the Saar Metal Association, which he held until 1955. In the following year he became the first authorized representative of IG Metall in Saarbrücken. In 1959 he moved to the Burbacher Hütte , where he worked as a social officer and company manager until 1965.
politics
In 1945 Rauch was a member of the founding committee of the newly created SPS, and a little later he was a member of the first district and state executive committee of the party. On June 21, 1945 he was appointed mayor of Friedrichsthal - Dudweiler , which he held until September 22, 1946. In 1947 he was appointed deputy member of the Saarland constitutional commission. In the same year he was elected to the state parliament for the first time , and in 1952 he was re-elected. In June 1955, a few months before the vote on the Second Saar Statute , he moved to the DSP, after the new elections he left the state parliament.
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| SURNAME | Rauch, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rauch, Richard Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining and trade union official and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolmunster |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1977 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |