| Josef Arndgen | |
| Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
| Term Start: | 7 September 1949 |
| Term End: | 17 October 1965 |
| Birth Date: | 24 February 1894 |
| Birth Place: | Rheydt |
| Death Place: | Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany |
| Party: | CDU |
| Nationality: | German |
Josef Arndgen (24 February 1894 - 20 September 1966) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.[1]
In 1931 Arndgen joined the Centre Party, of which he was a member until its dissolution in 1933. After the Second World War he participated in the founding of the CDU in Frankfurt am Main. From 1946 to 1949 Arndgen was a member of the state parliament in Hesse.
Since the first federal elections in 1949, Arndgen was a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Limburg constituency until 1965. He was vice-chairman of the Bundestag committees for social policy (1949-1957) and for questions of war victims and prisoners of war (1949-1953). From 1957 to 13 November 1958 he was Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Labour. From 28 October 1958 to 1965, Arndgen was Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
From 7 January 1947 to 9 November 1949 Arndgen was Minister of Labour and Welfare in Hesse.
Book: Vierhaus. Rudolf. Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002. Jahn. Bruno. 2002. De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. 978-3-11-184511-1. Herbst . Ludolf. München. de. Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002. 1715.