14 Facts About Jakob Kaiser

Jakob Kaiser was a German politician and resistance leader during World War II.

Jakob Kaiser served in the Reichstag before the war and the Bundestag after.

Jakob Kaiser was the first Federal Minister of All-German Affairs, serving from 1949 until 1957.

Jakob Kaiser increased his participation in politics by becoming a member of the Centre Party, where he began serving in the role of representative chairman of Rhineland in 1919.

Jakob Kaiser opposed National Socialism and he joined the resistance in 1934.

Jakob Kaiser was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 under suspicion of treason, but released shortly thereafter.

Jakob Kaiser was elected president of the Berlin CDU.

Jakob Kaiser belonged to a group within the CDU called the Christian Socialists.

In 1946, Jakob Kaiser helped found the Free German Trade Union Federation.

In 1948, Jakob Kaiser was forced to leave East Berlin and he went to West Berlin where he joined the West German Christian Democratic Union.

Jakob Kaiser disagreed with Adenauer's social market economy and called for the nationalisation of key industries.

Jakob Kaiser strongly believed in a neutral, united Germany, and hoped that Germany would be a bridge between the West and the East.

In 1950, Jakob Kaiser was elected a vice-chairman of the West German CDU.

Jakob Kaiser is buried in the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough of Berlin.