Josef Becker

{{Short description|German politician (1905–1996)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Josef Becker | office = Member of the Bundestag | image = KAS-Becker, Josef-Bild-19701-2.jpg | caption = Election poster (1969) | term_start = 7 September 1949 | term_end = 22 September 1972 | birth_date = {{birth date|1905|2|8|| df=y}} | birth_place = Bochum | death_date = {{death date and age|1996|10|19|1905|2|8|df=y}} | death_place = Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | party = CDU | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = shoemaker }}

'''Josef Becker''' (8 February 1905 – 19 October 1996) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages - 1.-13. Wahlperiode: Alphabetisches Gesamtverzeichnis; Stand: 28. Februar 1998|url=http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/cgi/show.php?fileToLoad=627&id=12|date=1998-02-28|website=webarchiv.bundestag.de|publisher=Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages (WD 3/ZI 5)|language=de|trans-title=The members of the German Bundestag - 1st - 13th term of office: Alphabetical complete index|access-date=2020-05-21|format=PDF}}</ref>

== Life == Before 1933 Becker was a member of the Centre Party. In 1945, he participated in the founding of the CDP, which later became the Rhineland-Palatinate state association of the CDU. In 1946, he was elected to the executive board of the Pirmasens district CDU association and was later its chairman until 1968. Becker had been a member of the Citizens' Council Committee since July 1945 and was a council member of the city of Pirmasens from 1946 to 1979. In 1946/47 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1972. In parliament he represented the constituency of Zweibrücken from 1949 to 1965 and then the constituency of Pirmasens until 1972.

From 1946 to 1948, Becker was second mayor of Pirmasens.

== Literature == {{cite book|editor1-last=Vierhaus|editor1-first=Rudolf|title=Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002|last2=Jahn|first2=Bruno|date=2002|publisher=De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur|isbn=978-3-11-184511-1|last1=Herbst |first1=Ludolf|location=München|language=de|trans-title=Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002|pages=1715}}

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