Anton Storch

Anton Storch (1 April 1892 – 26 November 1975) was a German trade unionist, politician, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the minister of labour from 1949 to 1957.

Early life Storch was born in Fulda, Hesse, in 1892. He was trained as a carpenter and served in World War I. He became a member of Bizonal Economic Council in 1947 and was named its director of labor in 1948.

He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and one of the CDU representatives in the Bundestag. Then he was appointed minister of labor and social affairs to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Konrad Adenauer on 20 September 1949. when Theodor Blank replaced him in the post.

Views Storch was an advocate of "far-reaching social welfare programme" He argued that the reason for two world wars was the "exaggerated liberal-capitalistic economic order of the last one hundred years."