title: Josef Arndgen
text: # Josef Arndgen
  
  Josef Arndgen (24 February 1894 – 20 September 1966) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
  
  ## Life
  
  In 1931 Arndgen joined the Centre Party, of which he was a member until its dissolution in 1933. After the Second World War he participated in the founding of the CDU in Frankfurt am Main. From 1946 to 1949 Arndgen was a member of the state parliament in Hesse.
  
  Since the first federal elections in 1949, Arndgen was a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Limburg constituency until 1965. He was vice-chairman of the Bundestag committees for social policy (1949-1957) and for questions of war victims and prisoners of war (1949-1953). From 1957 to 13 November 1958 he was Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Labour. From 28 October 1958 to 1965, Arndgen was Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
  
  From 7 January 1947 to 9 November 1949 Arndgen was Minister of Labour and Welfare in Hesse.
  
  ## Literature
  
  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.
  
  