Fritz Steinhoff

Fritz Steinhoff was a German politician of the SPD. He was the third Minister President of the state of North RhineWestphalia from 1956 until 1958.

Steinhoff was born in 1897 in a miners family and grew up in Unna. He became a miner at the age of seventeen. Steinhoff was drafted into the Navy in 1917 and served on a torpedo boat until 1919. He returned to his job as a miner and joined the SPD. He belonged to a nationalistic section of the Young Socialists in the SPD. In 1922, he went to the European Academy of Work in the University of Frankfurt to hear lectures about business and politics from lectures such as Franz Oppenheimer. Due to unemployment, Steinhoff went to Berlin, where he worked and attended Deutsche Hochschule fr Politik.

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