Anton Storch

Valentin Anton Storch ( born April 1, 1892 in Fulda, † November 26, 1975 ibid ) was a German politician ( CDU). He was from 1949 to 1957 Federal Minister of Labour.

Education and work

Stork was born on April 1, 1892 in Fulda. After his mother was seriously ill in 1898, he lived since 1900 in urban orphanage. Stork visited the urban cathedral school. In 1906 he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then worked until 1920 as a journeyman carpenter. From 1914 to 1918 he took part as a soldier in the First World War. From 1920 to 1931 he was head of the Gau Hannover and secretary of the Association of Christian woodworkers. From 1931 to 1933, he then led the National Association of Lower Saxony of the General German Trade Union Federation. After the banning of trade unions, he worked until 1939 as an insurance agent. From 1939 to 1945 he made ​​a safety and auxiliary starting at the fire police Hanover. From 1946 to 1948 he was head of the Social Policy Division of the DGB in the British occupation zone. Since 1966 Anton Storch was president of the Catholic community of men in Germany.

Party

Stork came in 1912 in the Windthorst Federal Government, the youth organization of the center at. In 1919 he then joined at the center. 1945 was Anton Storch of the founders of the CDU. In the years 1946 and 1947, Stork sat within the CDU and the Economic Council of the bizone one for the workforce.

Member of Parliament

From 1947 to 1949 Stork was a member of the Economic Council of the United Economic Area. From 1949 to 1965 he was a member of the German Bundestag as well as from 27 February 1958 to December 21, 1965 was also a member of the European Parliament, where he headed the Committee for the health since 1962.

Anton Storch is always drawn as a directly elected representative of the constituency Osnabrück City and Country in the Bundestag.

Public offices

From August 1948 to 1949 he was Director of the Department of Labour of the United Economic Area.

On September 20, 1949, he was appointed Minister of Labour. After the parliamentary elections of 1957, he retired on 29 October 1957 after criticizing his administration, from the federal government.

Honors

Publications

  • Records and memories, in: Members of the German Bundestag, notes and recollections, Volume 2, Boppard am Rhein, 1983, pp. 313-344 ( posthumously )
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