Green, Ferdinand

Politician

Born: 30.11.1886 in Diedesfeld (Rheinpfalz)

died: 14.12.1968 in Wiesbaden

Grün trained as a tinsmith and plumber; he continued his education at the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1908 he joined the Center Party and from 1919 to March 1933 was a member of Wiesbaden's first city parliament and magistrate, as well as co-founder of the Wiesbaden Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, of which he was a member of the board until 1933. He worked as a workers' secretary in the Wiesbaden district association of Catholic workers' and men's associations. Following the dissolution of the trade unions in May 1933, Grün was briefly arrested in Rüdesheim in 1933 and taken to Wiesbaden. The legal supervision office and workers' secretariat he headed in Wiesbaden were searched.

After the Nazi takeover, he was only able to continue his political and trade union work underground. He belonged to the Wiesbaden circle of friends around Heinrich Roos and was in contact with the resistance group of Christian trade unionists around Josef Arndgen. His office and home were repeatedly searched. He was arrested again in 1938. In May 1941, he found a job with the Catholic Church Treasury in Wiesbaden. In August 1944, he was imprisoned for several weeks in Albrechtstraße prison in connection with the events of July 20.

After the Second World War, he served as labor secretary, government councillor and head of the Wiesbaden employment office. From 1946-53 he was again a city councillor and from 1953-56 an honorary city councillor. He made a special contribution to the repair of war damage. In 1956, he was awarded the title of "City Elder". Grün was a founding member of the CDU in Hesse. In 1946, he was a member of the Greater Hesse constitutional advisory assembly and was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1946-50. In 1949, he took part in the 1st Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President.

Grün was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Gold Plaque of the State Capital of Wiesbaden (1966).