Wilhelm Kratz (politician)

Wilhelm Kratz (born June 11, 1905 in Kutzhof ; † April 30, 1986 in Merzig ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Kratz studied law and in 1924 joined the Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas -Salia Bonn. Since 1933 he worked as a lawyer in Merzig. On June 1, 1933, Kratz was admitted to the NSDAP ( membership number 2,696,359). In the first Saar referendum in 1935, Kratz fought for the German Front , of which he had been a member since 1934. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . At the end of the war he was captured by the British, then arrested by the French Sûreté and interned until 1947.

After his release in 1948 he was re-admitted to the bar. In the 1950s he was one of the founders of the CDU in the Merzig-Wadern district, which was illegal in the then Saar Protectorate .

Kratz was a member of the Saarland Landtag from 1955 to 1960, where he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in 1956/57. From March 18, 1957 to February 26, 1959, he was President of the State Parliament. He was sent by the Landtag to the German Bundestag on January 4, 1957 , but resigned his mandate on April 11 of the same year in order to concentrate on the newly assumed office as President of the Landtag.

Honors

Kratz was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit on April 25, 1977 .

Web links

Wilhelm Kratz on saarland-biografien.de

Individual evidence

↑ Erich later : The word of the Führer is our order. Heinrich Schneider a German patriot. (No longer available online.) In: Saarbrücker Hefte , No. 89. 2003, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Wilhelm Kratz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1958 ( online ).
↑ 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 .
^ Kratz, Wilhelm . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 669 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 18 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken May 9, 1977, p. 391–392 ( [1] [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Kratz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kutzhof
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1986
Place of death	Merzig

[1] Erich later : The word of the Führer is our order. Heinrich Schneider a German patriot. (No longer available online.) In: Saarbrücker Hefte , No. 89. 2003, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Wilhelm Kratz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1958 ( online ).

[3] 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 .

[4] Kratz, Wilhelm . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 669 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

[svo-5] Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 18 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken May 9, 1977, p. 391–392 ( [1] [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2017]).