Rudolf Recktenwald

Rudolf "Rudi" Recktenwald (born August 23, 1920 in Urexweiler ; † June 22, 2010 ibid) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Recktenwald was born the son of a master blacksmith. He learned his father's profession and passed the examination as a master blacksmith. He then took part in World War II as a soldier . In 1945 he took over his father's forge.

Recktenwald was accepted into the NSDAP on September 1, 1939 ( membership number 7,159,442). He had been a member of the SPD since 1952 and from 1955 to 1974 chairman of the SPD local branch in Urexweiler.

Recktenwald was a member of the district council of St. Wendel . He was a member of the Saarland Landtag from 1955 to 1975 and served as its vice-president from 1961 to 1975. He was a member of the German Bundestag from August 11, 1959, when he replaced Member of Parliament Kurt Conrad , until his resignation on October 20, 1959. He entered parliament via the Saarland state list. From 1956 to 1974 he was mayor of the community of Urexweiler.

Honors

1972: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
1975: Saarland Order of Merit
Honorary citizenship of the Marpingen community

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolf Recktenwald is dead. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. June 25, 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2010.
↑ Hans-Peter Klausch: List 1: Alphabetical list of members of the Saarland state parliament with proven NSDAP membership. (PDF; 2.15 MB) In: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. The Nazi past of representatives from Saarland. The left. Parliamentary group in the Saarland State Parliament, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 18 , accessed on January 25, 2016 .
^ 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	Recktenwald, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Recktenwald, Rudi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH	23rd August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Urexweiler
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 2010
Place of death	Urexweiler

[1] Rudolf Recktenwald is dead. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. June 25, 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2010.

[2] Hans-Peter Klausch: List 1: Alphabetical list of members of the Saarland state parliament with proven NSDAP membership. (PDF; 2.15 MB) In: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. The Nazi past of representatives from Saarland. The left. Parliamentary group in the Saarland State Parliament, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 18 , accessed on January 25, 2016 .

[svo-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]).