Walter Arendt
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Walter Arendt | |
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![]() Arendt in 1976 | |
Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs ![]() | |
In office 22 October 1969 – 14 December 1976 | |
Chancellor | Willy Brandt (1969-74) Helmut Schmidt (1974-76) |
Preceded by | Hans Katzer |
Succeeded by | Herbert Ehrenberg |
Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag | |
In office 14 December 1976 – 4 November 1980 | |
Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 17 October 1961 – 4 November 1980 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1925-01-17)17 January 1925 Heessen |
Died | 7 March 2005(2005-03-07) (aged 80) Bornheim |
Nationality | German |
Political party | SPD (1946 until his death) |
Occupation | Miner |
Walter Arendt (born 17 January 1925 in Heessen; died 7 March 2005 in Bornheim) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
He was Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany from 1969 to 1976.
Since 1946 he was member of the SPD and member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1980.
Biography
[edit]Family, education and profession
[edit]Arendt was the son of a miner who died early from pneumoconiosis. This was one of his motives in his later strive to improve the situation of miners by enabling them to receive earlier pension.
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- DNB-Catalogue (German)
- Arendt at the archives of the social democratie from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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Preceded by | President of the Union of Mining and Energy 1964–1969 |
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Preceded by | President of the Miners' International Federation 1967–1969 |
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Categories:
- 1925 births
- 2005 deaths
- Ministers of labor of Germany
- Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia
- Members of the Bundestag 1976–1980
- Members of the Bundestag 1972–1976
- Members of the Bundestag 1969–1972
- Members of the Bundestag 1965–1969
- Members of the Bundestag 1961–1965
- Social Affairs ministers of Germany
- Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany