Franz Pfender

Franz Pfender was a German politician of the Centre Party and the Christian Democratic Union and a member of the German Bundestag.

Life

After attended Volksschule, Pfender served as a soldier in World War I from 1917 to 1918. In 1921, he became a member of a Catholic workers' association in Württemberg. From 1922, he worked as a full-time official for the Christian trade unions in Württemberg and, in 1924, he moved to the Province of Upper Silesia working in the same capacity. From 1926 to 1933, he was a member of the Upper Silesian provincial parliament for the Centre Party.
After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Pfender was forced to relinquish his political and trade union positions. He lived in Silesia during the following years and worked as a district manager for a life insurance company. From 1939 to 1945, he served as a soldier in World War II until he was captured as a prisoner of war.
After the end of the war, Pfender returned to politics and became a member of the Landtag for Württemberg-Hohenzollern from 1946 to 1952. At the federal elections in 1949, he entered the first German Bundestag via the state list of the Christian Democratic Union Württemberg-Hohenzollern, of which he was a member until 1953. In the Bundestag, he was a member of the Committee for Reconstruction and Housing, the Committee for Homeland Displacement and the Committee for Internal Restructuring.