Alfred Gleisner
Member of the Bundestag
In office
7 September 1949 – 17 March 1959
Personal details
Born(1908-06-19)19 June 1908
Kamen
Died15 February 1991(1991-02-15) (aged 82)
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
SpouseElisabeth Gleisner

Alfred Gleisner (19 June 1908 – 15 February 1991) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag.[1]

Life

Gleisner was born on 19 June 1908 to a family of miners in Kamen,[2] a town in North Rhine-Westphalia. After attending school, he trained as a miner.[2]

Gleisner was employed as a miner from 1922 to 1928.[3] He entered the Prussian police force later and became an inspector by 1932.[2] After his career in law enforcement, he was an insurance salesman from 1934 to 1937.[3] He also served as a manager for a food business and factory director before he shifted to politics.

From 1947 to 1950 Gleisner was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was deputy chairman of the legal and judicial committees.

From the first election in 1949 until his resignation on 17 March 1959 he was a member of the Bundestag. In 1949 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Unna-Hamm and in the two following elections he entered parliament via the state list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Bundestag he was a full member of the defense committee from 1949 to 1959.

Gleisner was married to Elisabeth Gleisner.[4] He died in 1991.

Literature

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.

References

  1. ^ "Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages - 1.-13. Wahlperiode: Alphabetisches Gesamtverzeichnis; Stand: 28. Februar 1998" [The members of the German Bundestag - 1st - 13th term of office: Alphabetical complete index] (PDF). webarchiv.bundestag.de (in German). Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages (WD 3/ZI 5). 1998-02-28. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  2. ^ a b c Heino (19 June 2013). "Bergkamen war für Alfred Gleisner wie eins seiner Kinder". Bergkamener Infoblog. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  3. ^ a b Nordrhein-Westfalen, Landtag. "Landtag NRW: Detailansicht des Abgeordneten Alfred Gleisner". landtag.nrw.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  4. ^ "Marktplatz trägt den Namen des ersten Bergkamener Stadtdirektors". wa.de (in German). 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2020-06-19.


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