John Hans Krebs

John Hans Krebs ( born December 17, 1926 in Berlin ) is an American politician of German origin. Between 1975 and 1979 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1933, John Krebs emigrated to the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany to Palestine, where later the state of Israel should arise. There he attended until 1937 the Balfour School. Then he studied until 1945 at Ben Yehuda College. In 1946 he emigrated to the United States, whose citizenship he received in 1954. Until 1950 he studied at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1952 to 1954 he served in the U.S. Army.

After studying law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco in 1957 and was admitted as an attorney of his cancer began working in Fresno in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1965 to 1969 he was a member of the Planning Commission in Fresno County; 1970-1974 he was a member of the county council in that area. In 1966 he took part in California as a delegate at the Regional Congress of Democrats.

In the congressional elections of 1974, cancer was the 17th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Pete McCloskey on January 3, 1975. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until 3 January 1979 two legislative sessions. In 1978, he defeated Republican Charles Pashayan. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, John Cancer withdrew from politics. End of his life he spent in Fresno.