Waldemar Kraft
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Managing Director of the Reich Association for Land Management in the Annexed Territories Nazi Germany
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Federal Minister for Special Affairs Germany
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In office 1953–1956 |
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Minister of Finance Schleswig-Holstein
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Member of Parliament Germany
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In office 1953–1961 |
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Member of Parliament Schleswig-Holstein
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In office 1950–1953 |
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE) Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
Waldemar Kraft (19 February 1898 in Brzustow, Jarotschin district, in the Province of Posen (today Brzostów, Poland) – 12 July 1977 in Bonn) was a German politician who served as Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the Cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1953 to 1956. From 1950 to 1953 he served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, and from 1951 to 1953 as Acting Minister of Justice. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1953 to 1961, and a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 1950 to 1953.
Kraft initially represented the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights and served as its chairman from 1951 to 1954. In 1956, he became a member of the Christian Democratic Union.
Waldemar Kraft was born to a Protestant German family on the Prussian-Russian border. He attended secondary school in pre-1914 Posen, focusing his secondary school studies on agriculture. Between 1915 and 1920 he was a soldier of the Prussian Army and participated in World War I, where he was severely wounded. Afterwards he served as a company commander.
After the war he chose to return to the Greater Poland and from 1921 to 1939 he was the director of the Hauptvereins der Deutschen Bauernvereine or Main German Farmers' Associations in Poznań. In 1925 he was also appointed director of the Deutschen Landwirtschaftlichen Zentralverbandes in Polen or Central Association of German Farming in Poland.
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