Josef Stingl was a German politician who served as the longstanding president of the Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit from 1968 to 1984.
19 Facts About Josef Stingl
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Josef Stingl attended secondary school in Eger, passing his school finals with high marks in 1938.
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In December 1938 Josef Stingl was conscripted as a "Fahnenjunker", working on anti-aircraft operations.
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Josef Stingl ended the war with more than 200 missions flown.
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Joseph Josef Stingl married Dorothea Behmke in 1943: the marriage produced two recorded children.
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Josef Stingl's earnings were high enough for him to be able to fund university level studies through evening classes.
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Josef Stingl studied, instead, in the American zone, at the recently relaunched and renamed "Otto Suhr Institute", emerging from his studies in 1951 with a degree in Political Sciences.
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Josef Stingl's dissertation was entitled "Die Entwicklung einer 'pressure group' in der deutschen Beamterschaft".
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Josef Stingl stayed on as a research assistant for a couple of terms after graduating.
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Josef Stingl rose through the party hierarchy, becoming deputy chair of the local party executive in Berlin-Reinickendorf in 1951 and a member of the regional party executive for Berlin in 1952, of which he became regional deputy chair in 1956.
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Josef Stingl was elected a member of the West German Bundestag in September 1953 as one 22 members representing the territory becoming known as West Berlin.
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Josef Stingl remained a Bundestag member without a break till 1968.
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Josef Stingl was included on the candidate list in the expectation that he would contribute on the party's behalf, primarily, on matters of social policy.
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Josef Stingl was a full member of various parliamentary committees.
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Josef Stingl continued to be closely involved in party policy making on these matters, notably in respect of pension reforms, even after 1968.
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Between 2 May 1968 and 30 March 1984 Josef Stingl served as president of the Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit.
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At a time when "media political correctness" was not yet ubiquitous, Josef Stingl, who was a more than averagely rotund gentleman, was referred to as "der Bundesunke" in reference to his monthly media appearances to announce the deteriorating West German unemployment statistics.
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Between 1983 and 1990 Josef Stingl took a post as an honorary professor at the University of Bamberg where he was assigned to the department of "professional further education".
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Josef Stingl was committed to dialogue and reconciliation between the descendants of the Sudeten Germans and of the Czechs who had taken their place in those territories.