Josef Schrage (6 May 1881 – 27 November 1953) was a Westphalian metalworker, trade union official and politician, first of the Center Party and after World War II as one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Union.
From 1919 to 1933 he was a city councilor in Olpe, he was on the Kreistag, and from 1921 to 1933 sat in the Province of Westphalia Provincial Parliament (Provinziallandtag).
After the seizure of power by the Nazi Party, he lost his position as Labor Office Director and until the end of World War II distributed the newspaper Tremonia (Dortmund).
In 1948–1949, Schrage was a member of the Parlamentarischer Rat which drafted and adopted the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz).Between 1950 and 1953 he was Chairman of the Regional Assembly.
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