Rudolf Kaffka

Rudolf Kaffka (born June 14, 1923 in Radeberg ; † January 30, 1985 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German theologian and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden , Kaffka was drafted into the Wehrmacht . From 1941 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was deployed on the Eastern Front, most recently as a lieutenant in the artillery. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the United States, from which he was released in 1946. After his release from captivity, he studied theology and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1946 to 1950 . He was vicar until 1952 and then worked as a pastor in the Labor Service units. From 1956 to 1961 he worked as a pastor in Annweiler am Trifels . He was then put on hold. Kaffka was married to Brigitte (née Fehmann, 1934-2017) and had three children.

Political party

Kaffka joined the SPD and was temporarily deputy chairman of the SPD district of the Palatinate . In August 1980, however, he was together with his former assistant Heinz Weigel from the SPD ruled out . Both had been convicted of continued communal fraud and communal infidelity. They had "between 1972 and 1976 swindled excessive state subsidies for political education work and sometimes used them for other purposes for party work".

MP

Kaffka was a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1980. He entered parliament in 1961 via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list and represented the Frankenthal constituency from 1965 to 1980 .

supporting documents

1. ↑ Exclusion of the party: Fraud and infidelity - report of the Hamburger Abendblatt from August 15, 1980 ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )