Alfred Gleisner

Alfred Gleisner (19 June 1908 – 15 February 1991) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the German Bundestag.^[1]

Gleisner was born on 19 June 1908 to a family of miners in Kamen,^[2] a town in North Rhine-Westphalia. After attending school, he trained as a miner.^[2]

Gleisner was employed as a miner from 1922 to 1928.^[3] He entered the Prussian police force later and became an inspector by 1932.^[2] After his career in law enforcement, he was an insurance salesman from 1934 to 1937.^[3] He also served as a manager for a food business and factory director before he shifted to politics.

From 1947 to 1950 Gleisner was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was deputy chairman of the legal and judicial committees.

From the first election in 1949 until his resignation on 17 March 1959 he was a member of the Bundestag. In 1949 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Unna-Hamm and in the two following elections he entered parliament via the state list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Bundestag he was a full member of the defense committee from 1949 to 1959.

Gleisner was married to Elisabeth Gleisner.^[4] He died in 1991.

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.

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