1. Heinrich Brauns was a German politician and Roman Catholic theologian, who for the German Center Party was a long-serving Minister of Labour of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1928.
16 Facts About Heinrich Brauns
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Heinrich Brauns was born on 3 January 1868 in Cologne, in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Heinrich Brauns was the only child of Johann Brauns, a tailor and his wife Anna Catharina, nee Creveld.
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Heinrich Brauns attended the Apostelgymnasium at Cologne, where he made his Abitur in 1886.
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Heinrich Brauns studied theology and philosophy at the University of Bonn and then attended a seminary at Cologne.
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Heinrich Brauns worked in pastoral care until in 1900 he became head of the organisation department and economics teaching at the Zentralstelle des Volksvereins fur das katholische Deutschland at Monchengladbach.
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In January 1919, Heinrich Brauns was elected to the National Assembly, and in February worked with other delegates to prevent the Betriebsrategesetz from reflecting radical Rate ideology.
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Heinrich Brauns joined the cabinet of Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach that same month as Minister of Labour, a position he held for the next eight years under changing heads of government.
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Since 1920, Heinrich Brauns was a member of the leadership of the Zentrum where he was part of the party's right wing.
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Heinrich Brauns supported rules on policies such as social security entitlements or handouts for the war-wounded.
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Heinrich Brauns wrote about social policy issues, and was active in the international Catholic labour movement.
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In 1931, he chaired a commission named after him, created by chancellor Heinrich Brauns Bruning that looked into the causes and ramifications of the Great Depression.
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Heinrich Brauns's party did not renominate him for the Reichstag elections of 5 March 1933 and he retired to Lindenberg im Allgau.
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Heinrich Brauns was prosecuted by the Nazis and was one of the defendants at the Volksvereinsprozess, where he was found not guilty.
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Heinrich Brauns died in Lindenberg on 19 October 1939 following an appendicitis.
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Heinrich Brauns was awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the University of Cologne in 1921.