13 Facts About Fritz Steinhoff

Fritz Steinhoff was a German politician of the SPD.

Fritz Steinhoff was the third Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1956 to 1958.

Fritz Steinhoff became a miner at the age of seventeen.

Fritz Steinhoff was drafted into the Navy in 1917 and served on a torpedo boat until 1919.

Fritz Steinhoff returned to his job as a miner and joined the SPD.

Fritz Steinhoff belonged to a nationalistic section of the Young Socialists in the SPD.

Fritz Steinhoff later worked at a stove and oven cleaning business from 1937 until his sentence in 1938, where Steinhoff was sentenced to three years in prison, due to smuggling the Vorwarts into Germany in 1934, after the banning of the newspaper in 1933.

Fritz Steinhoff worked again as a laborer after his release in 1941.

In 1945, Fritz Steinhoff was in a death march, being liberated by American troops in Mecklenburg.

Fritz Steinhoff was a member of the first Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, of which he was the Minister of Reconstruction in the cabinet of Karl Arnold.

Fritz Steinhoff was using the "Young Turks" in the FDP successfully in a motion of no confidence put against Arnold.

Fritz Steinhoff was the chairman of the Ruhr Regional Association in 1958.

Fritz Steinhoff defended the mandate in 1965 and remained in office until his death.