1. Hans Katzer was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
18 Facts About Hans Katzer
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Hans Katzer served as Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of West Germany from 1965 to 1969 under Ludwig Erhard and Kurt Georg Kiesinger.
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Hans Katzer was a Member of the Bundestag for Cologne III then North Rhine-Westphalia from 1957 to 1980.
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Hans Katzer was a member of the council of Cologne for the Centre Party from 1919 to 1933.
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Hans Katzer was forced to leave the Realgymnasium in 1935 due to this.
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Hans Katzer then did a commercial apprenticeship at a Cologne textile company, where he worked as part of the Reich Labour Service from 1938 to 1940, and attended the Higher Technical School for the Textile Industry in Monchengladbach from 1939 to 1942.
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Hans Katzer afterwards became a Leutnant, becoming an instructor in Metz during the German occupation of France.
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Hans Katzer was briefly a prisoner of war by the US Army in May 1945, but was after released.
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Hans Katzer was a member of the CDU Executive Committee from 1960.
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Hans Katzer became the Chairman of the Committee on Economic Property from 1961 to 1965.
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In 1969 Hans Katzer started pushing the Labour Promotion Act, which introduced a more active labour market policy in an attempt to fight unemployment and inferior employment.
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Hans Katzer helped pass the Savings Premium Act and the issuance of shares to the general public at a discounted rate.
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In 1973, at a meeting with the social committees, Hans Katzer called for a return of the Ahlen Program for the CDU, which called for the partial socialization of large-scale industry and strong co-determination rights.
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Hans Katzer was considered a political mentor to Norbert Blum, who later led the same ministerial role as him.
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However, there was later a reported feud between them in the late 1970s when Blum succeeded him as chairman of the CDU Social Committees, as Blum's newer followers helped oust him but Hans Katzer later said there was nothing between them.
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Hans Katzer headed the Jakob Kaiser Foundation, and in this role pushed for German reunification.
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Hans Katzer was on the Bureau of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the Committee for Transport in 1979, and finally on the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1984.
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Hans Katzer's father-in-law was Jakob Kaiser, who was the Federal Minister of All-German Affairs, and Katzer inherited much of his estate after Kaiser's death.