Max Amling

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Max Amling (28 April 1934 in Eibelstadt - 7 April 2017 in Friedberg) was a German politician of the SPD who was a member of the Bundestag for 18 years, from 1972 to 1990.

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Life

After graduating from a Volksschule and an apprenticeship as a Plumber from 1948 to 1952, Amling joined the SPD and its youth organization Jusos (meaning Young Socialists) in 1952. He was the secretary of the Augsburg local Jusos chapter from 1962 to 1969 and sat in the city council from 1966 to 1972. In his last year of working in the city council, he was deputy chairman of the SPD City Council Group from June until he was first elected into the Bundestag in November 1972 (the seventh Bundestag) by winning the Augsburg constitutency. He became member of the next Bundestag , the eighth (1976), ninth (1980), tenth (1983) and eleventh (1987), through assignement by his party without having to win any constitutency. He was active in Augsburg's chapter of the German Trade Union Confederation and served as its secretary from 1970 to 1981 and previously as its youth secretary from 1960 to 1968. [1] [2]

After he died in 2017, other politicians expressed their condolences and thanked him for his work. Ulrike Bahr called him a "great personality and an upright Social Democrat". [1]

He has five kids. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "SPD Augsburg trauert um Max Amling". spd-augsburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-16.
  2. 1 2 "Bayerischer Verdienstorden: Max Amling". www.bayerischer-verdienstorden.de. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
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