Walter Arendt

Walter Arendt
Arendt in 1976
Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs  Germany
In office 22 October 1969 – 14 December 1976
Chancellor	Willy Brandt (1969-74) Helmut Schmidt (1974-76)
Preceded by	Hans Katzer
Succeeded by	Herbert Ehrenberg
Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
In office 14 December 1976 – 4 November 1980
Member of the Bundestag
In office 17 October 1961 – 4 November 1980
Personal details
Born	(1925-01-17)17 January 1925 Heessen
Died	7 March 2005(2005-03-07) (aged 80) Bornheim
Nationality	German
Political party	SPD (1946 until his death)
Occupation	Miner

Walter Arendt (born 17 January 1925 in Heessen; died 7 March 2005 in Bornheim) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

He was Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany from 1969 to 1976.

Since 1946 he was member of the SPD and member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1980.

Biography

Family, education and profession

Arendt was the son of a miner who died early from pneumoconiosis. This was one of his motives in his later strive to improve the situation of miners by enabling them to receive earlier pension.

External links

• DNB-Catalogue (German)
• Arendt at the archives of the social democratie from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

Trade union offices
Preceded by Heinrich Gutermuth	President of the Union of Mining and Energy 1964–1969	Succeeded by Adolf Schmidt
Preceded by Heinrich Gutermuth	President of the Miners' International Federation 1967–1969	Succeeded by ?