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Waldemar Kraft (born 19 February 1898 in Brzustow, Jarotschin district, in the Province of Posen (today Brzostów, Poland); died 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. ==Education and profession== 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. From 1939 to 1940 he served as the regional President of Agriculture (the ''Landwirtschaftskammer'') in Nazi Posen. From 1940 to 1945 he was Managing Director of the ''Reichsgesellschaft für Landbewirtschaftung in den eingegliederten Ostgebieten mbH („Reichsland“)'' or Reich Association for land management in the annexed territories, in Berlin. Shortly before the war ended this Reich Association, and Kraft, moved to Ratzeburg in Schleswig-Holstein. From 1945 to 1947 he was interned in Schleswig-Holstein and remained unemployed in Ratzeburg to 1950. From 1949 to 1951 he was the spokesperson for the ''Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe'' or German Vistula and Warta Association. As such he signed the Charter of the German expellees and later became honorary chairman (an ''Ehrenvorsitzender''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Waldemar Kraft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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