Max Amling (28 April 1934 inEibelstadt - 7 April 2017 inFriedberg) was a German politician of theSPD who was a member of theBundestag for 18 years, from 1972 to 1990.
After graduating from aVolksschule and an apprenticeship as aPlumber from 1948 to 1952, Amling joined the SPD and its youth organizationJusos (meaningYoung Socialists) in 1952. He was the secretary of theAugsburg local Jusos chapter from 1962 to 1969 and sat in the city council from 1966 to 1972. In his last year of working in the city council, he was deputy chairman of the SPD City Council Group from June until he was first elected into the Bundestag in November 1972 (theseventh Bundestag) by winning the Augsburg constitutency. He became member of the nextBundestag, theeighth (1976),ninth (1980),tenth (1983) andeleventh (1987), through assignement by his party without having to win any constitutency. He was active in Augsburg's chapter of theGerman Trade Union Confederation and served as its secretary from 1970 to 1981 and previously as its youth secretary from 1960 to 1968.[1][2]
After he died in 2017, other politicians expressed their condolences and thanked him for his work.Ulrike Bahr called him a "great personality and an uprightSocial Democrat".[1]
He has five kids.[1]