Willi Hartung (politician)

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Willi Hartung (born January 17, 1910 in Koblenz , † December 31, 1986 in Mainz ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Hartung attended elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, which he completed with a journeyman's examination. He joined the Socialist Youth Workers in 1924 and joined the SPD in 1928. After the National Socialists came to power , he was observed by the Gestapo due to his previous membership of the SAJ . He passed the master craftsman's examination in 1935, moved to Saarland in the same year and became the manager of a shoemaker's shop there. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He was most recently taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released at the end of 1945.

After his return from captivity, Hartung worked again in the profession he had learned. In 1950 he took over his parents' shoemaker's business in Koblenz, which he ran as an independent master shoemaker in the following years.

Hartung was a member of the Koblenz city council from 1946 to 1958 and was elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there in 1950. In the state elections in 1951 and 1955 , he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he belonged until 1959. In the state parliament he was a member of the petitions committee from 1955 to 1959.

In addition to his professional and political activities, Hartung was involved in the carnival. He was a board member of the Koblenz Carnival Working Group and for 30 years chairman of the KKG Rot-Weiß-Grün Kowelenzer Schängelcher 1922 eV carnival association founded in 1922

honors and awards

In 2010 the city of Koblenz named a street after him with the Willi-Hartung-Weg .

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 268.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhard Kallenbach: Kowelenzer Schängelcher celebrate a rare anniversary in Koblenz. In: Rhein-Zeitung . January 31, 2011, accessed November 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1986
Place of death Mainz