Early life and Farming Career Funk, who was a
Protestant Christian, was a soldier in
World War I despite his young age. After the war he studied
agriculture in
Munich and graduated as a
farmer. In 1932 he took over the parental lease in Neuses am Sand, which he acquired in 1936. He joined the CSU in 1949 after being appointed as a candidate for the
Bundestag and had been a member of the German Bundestag since its
first election in 1949 until his death in 1963. He was always elected directly to parliament in the constituency of
Schweinfurt. From 1953 to 1957, he was deputy chairman of the CSU national group in the
CDU / CSU parliamentary group. From 1957 until his death he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag's Committee on Petitions. On May 17, 1963, he was awarded the
Bavarian Order of Merit. ==See also==