as well as with the French Resistance, Joos became a prominent advocate for a European Union. He rejoined the Christian Democratic Union and became a special advisor on European Affairs to the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. In 1960, he moved to St Gallen in Switzerland for health reasons. He died in St Gallen on 11 March 1965. Thanks to his lifelong piety and activism, on 8 December 1954, Joseph Joos was ordered Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Cardinal Nicola Canali, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Public Office Joseph Joos attended the Weimar National Assembly in January 1919 in his capacity of representative of the Christian Democrats of the Rhein region. He then became a full-time Christian Democrat deputy at the Weimar Reichsteig until November 1933. 1920-1933: Member of the Zentrum (Center Party) coalition in Parliament 1922: President of the Deutschen Katolischen Katholikentags in Munich and Chairperson of the Windthorstbundes, a youth organization of the Center Party 1926-1932: Member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold organization 1927: Chairman of the German Catholic Worker Movement 1928: Chairman of the international Catholic Worker Movement 1928: Member of the Volksverein für das katholische Deutschland (People Association for a Catholic Germany) 1928-1933: Chairman of the Zentrum 1933: Resignation from the management board of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) Books on Joseph Joos Joachim Giers: "Joos, Josef". In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, , S. 595 f. (Digitalisat). Bernd Haunfelder: Reichstagsabgeordnete der Deutschen Zentrumspartei 1871–1933. Biographisches Handbuch und historische Photographien. Photodokumente zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Band 4. Düsseldorf 1999, S. 1325 f. Oswald Wachtling: Joseph Joos. Journalist, Arbeiterführer, Zentrumspolitiker. Politische Biographie 1878–1933. (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Zeitgeschichte, Reihe B: Forschungen, Band 16) Mainz 1974 External links Publications from and on Joseph Joos in the German National Library Joseph Joos in the archives of the German Parliament 1878 births 1965 deaths People from Haut-Rhin People from Alsace-Lorraine German Roman Catholics Centre Party (Germany) politicians Members of the Weimar National Assembly Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold members Catholic Workers Dachau concentration camp survivors Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany People from St. Gallen (city)