Xaver Senft

Xaver Senft (born September 23, 1919 in Floß (Upper Palatinate) , † May 9, 1984 ) was a German stonemason and trade unionist.

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Senft attended elementary, vocational and technical school and then did an apprenticeship as a stonemason. This gave him the right to work as a master mason and stone technician. During the Second World War he was a member of the Wehrmacht , but interrupted this phase for two years to attend the state master school for stonemasons in Strasbourg . After he returned from his Soviet captivity in the fall of 1945, he co-founded the local unified trade union in Floß. In 1945 he joined the IG Bau-Steine-Erden , a little later he worked in the vocational education department at the Bavarian Trade Union Federation in Regensburg . In 1947 he was involved in the development of the youth union in Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria , after which he was (deputy) chairman of the district youth association in Regensburg and the district youth association in Upper Palatinate. After attending the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main , he worked full-time for the Bavarian state district of the DGB , including as youth and education officer for Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate, as head of the youth department in Munich , as a full-time member of the board and chairman of the state district, and as head of the education department. At the same time, he was vice-president of the Bavarian Youth Association from 1958 to 1977 , in 1974 he became deputy chairman of the state advisory board for adult education and was chairman of the DGB-Bildungswerk, which he founded . From 1980 to 1982 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate .

Web links

• Xaver Senft in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History