Josef Arndgen
{{Short description|German politician (1894–1966)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Josef Arndgen
| office = Member of the Bundestag
| image = KAS-Arndgen, Josef-Bild-293-2.jpg
| caption = Candidate poster Josef Arndgens for the 1953 federal elections
| term_start = 7 September 1949
| term_end = 17 October 1965
| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|2|24|| df=y}}
| birth_place = Rheydt
| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|9|20|1894|2|24|df=y}}
| death_place = Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
| party = CDU
| nationality = German
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Josef Arndgen (24 February 1894 – 20 September 1966) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.{{Cite web|title=Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages - 1.-13. Wahlperiode: Alphabetisches Gesamtverzeichnis; Stand: 28. Februar 1998|url=http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/cgi/show.php?fileToLoad=627&id=12|date=1998-02-28|website=webarchiv.bundestag.de|publisher=Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages (WD 3/ZI 5)|language=de|trans-title=The members of the German Bundestag - 1st - 13th term of office: Alphabetical complete index|access-date=2020-05-21|format=PDF}}
Life
In 1931 Arndgen joined the Centre Party, of which he was a member until its dissolution in 1933. After the Second World War he participated in the founding of the CDU in Frankfurt am Main. From 1946 to 1949 Arndgen was a member of the state parliament in Hesse.
Since the first federal elections in 1949, Arndgen was a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Limburg constituency until 1965. He was vice-chairman of the Bundestag committees for social policy (1949-1957) and for questions of war victims and prisoners of war (1949-1953). From 1957 to 13 November 1958 he was Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Labour. From 28 October 1958 to 1965, Arndgen was Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
From 7 January 1947 to 9 November 1949 Arndgen was Minister of Labour and Welfare in Hesse.
Literature
{{cite book|editor1-last=Vierhaus|editor1-first=Rudolf|title=Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002|last2=Jahn|first2=Bruno|date=2002|publisher=De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur|isbn=978-3-11-184511-1|last1=Herbst |first1=Ludolf|location=München|language=de|trans-title=Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002|pages=1715}}
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