August Grunau (12 July 1881 – 21 June 1931) was a German politician and Unionist, he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly representing the

Catholic Centre Party The Centre Party (german: Zentrum), officially the German Centre Party (german: link=no, Deutsche Zentrumspartei) and also known in English as the Catholic Centre Party, is a Catholic political party in Germany, influential in the German Empire ...

. Grunau was born in Klingerswalde,

East Prussia East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...

(Podleśna, Poland), he started to work on farms and left East Prussia at the age of 15 to work in different factories in

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and

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. In 1906 he joined the Christian Association of factory and transport laborers and became its chairman in Hanover from 1907 to 1913. On 1 August 1913 he became the district chairman of this Association for the Provinces of

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and Posen. He was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 representing the constituency of Breslau (Wroclaw). Grunau died in 1931 in Oppeln,

(Opole).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grunau, August 1881 births 1931 deaths People from Dobre Miasto Politicians from East Prussia German Roman Catholics Centre Party (Germany) politicians Members of the Weimar National Assembly German trade unionists