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What position did Karl Arnold take from Oct 1957 to Jun 1958?
Karl Arnold Karl Arnold ( 21 March 1901 – 29 June 1958 ) was a German politician . He was Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956 . Early life and education . Arnold was born in Herrlishöfen in Württemberg on 21 March 1901 . He was trained as shoemaker and later ( 1920/21 ) studied at the Soziale Hochschule Leohaus , Munich . From 1920 onwards , Arnold worked as functionary of the movement of Christian workers . In 1924 , he became secretary of the Christian workers union for the Düsseldorf region . He was elected in the town council of Düsseldorf for the Centre Party in 1929 . In 1933 , Arnold was co-owner of a sanitary installation shop in Düsseldorf . The Gestapo observed and hunted him in the following years because of his political activities . In 1944 , he was jailed by the Gestapo . Career . After World War II , Arnold became politically active again . In 1945 , he was co-founder of the local Christian-Democratic Party in Düsseldorf , which became part of the CDU later in 1945 . Also in 1945 , the Düsseldorf chapter of the united workers union was founded , presided by Arnold . On 29 January 1946 Arnold was named mayor of Düsseldorf and later elected in the first free elections ( 26 October 1946 ) . In December 1946 , Arnold became deputy minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1947 he was elected minister-president . Until 1950 he presided over a coalition of CDU , Centre Party , SPD and ( briefly ) the Communist Party . He considered himself a christian socialist . The only in-parliament-party he did not let enter the government was the FDP , whose North-Rhine Westphalian branch had a particular nationalist bent . On 7 September 1949 , he was elected as the first president of the Bundesrat of Germany , the representation of German states at the federal level . From 1950 to 1956 , Arnold was elected minister-president for North Rhine-Westphalia twice again , governing with the help of conservative parties and the Free Democrats . Important acts of his government were the foundation of the North Rhine-Westphalian broadcasting system ( today : Westdeutscher Rundfunk ) and the German system of workers union influence in steel and coal industries . On 20 February 1956 , the FDP switched coalition affiliation to the SPD , ending the Arnold government in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1957 , he was elected into the German Bundestag ( with a 72% majority in his constituency ) . He was member of the Bundestag until 29 June 1958 , when he died of a heart attack . Personal life . In 1928 , Arnold married Liesel Joeres . Arnold was a Catholic and a member of the German branch of the lay Catholic organization Catholic Action . Further reading . - Uertz , Rudolf ( 2004 ) . Karl Arnold . Christliche Demokraten gegen Hitler : Aus Verfolgung und Widerstand zur Union . Ed . Buchstab , Günter ; Kaff , Brigitte ; Kleinmann , Hans-Otto . Freiburg , Germany : Herder , 2004 . 81–89 . Print . - Biography of Arnold at the German Historic Museum , German