Victor-Emanuel Preusker

Victor-Emanuel Preusker
Preusker in a 1953 photo of Adenauer II cabinet.
Federal Minister for Housing (West Germany)
In office 20 October 1953 (1953-10-20) – 22 October 1957 (1957-10-22)
Chancellor	Konrad Adenauer
Preceded by	Fritz Neumayer
Succeeded by	Paul Lücke
Member of the Bundestag for Wiesbaden
In office 14 August 1949 (1949-08-14) – 15 August 1957 (1957-08-15)
Preceded by	office established
Succeeded by	Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt
Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia
In office 15 August 1957 (1957-08-15) – 17 August 1961 (1961-08-17)
Vice President of the Bundestag
In office 23 April 1958 – 4 October 1960
Personal details
Born	(1913-02-25)25 February 1913 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	13 May 1991(1991-05-13) (aged 78) Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Resting place	Burgfriedhof
Political party	NSDAP (1937-1945) FDP (1948-1956) FVP (1956-1957) DP (1958-1960) CDU (1960-1970) FDP (1970-1991)
Military service
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Branch/service	Luftwaffe
Years of service	1940-1945
Rank	Leutnant
Unit	Kommando Nowotny

Victor-Emanuel Preusker (25 February 1913 – 13 May 1991) was a German politician who served as Federal Minister for Housing of West Germany from 1953 to 1957. He was a member of various political groups, mostly notably as a co-founder of the FVP in 1956 after leaving the FDP as part of the "Euler Group"^[a] and as a member of the FDP.

Preusker was born in the German Empire, and studied economics, eventually achieving Dr. rer. pol. in 1940. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and was also a member of the SA and SS. He was a "racial specialist" in charge of the Aryanization of Austrian banks at Dresdner Bank from 1932 to 1938, and was also in the military as a leutnant of the Luftwaffe and a air traffic controller for Kommando Nowotny. He then joined the FDP in 1947 after some persuasion from August-Martin Euler, and was elected to the first Bundestag in 1949 for Wiesbaden. He served in the Bundestag until 1961, switching to state list for North Rhine-Westphalia in his last term and served as a Vice President of the Bundestag. His most notable appointment was as Federal Minister for Housing in Konrad Adenauer's 2nd cabinet. As minister, he pushed for economic liberalisation and was market-oriented. His term was dominated by the spike in need of housing after millions of East German refugees migrated to the country.
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