Eduard Orth
Eduard Orth (born October 13, 1902 in Germersheim , † March 31, 1968 in Mainz ) was a German economist , entrepreneur and politician ( CDU ).
Life and work
Orth was born the son of a postal worker. After graduating from high school in 1922 at the humanistic grammar school in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , today Kurfürst-Ruprecht grammar school , he began studying business and economics, political science and art history in Mannheim , Munich and Innsbruck . He was a member of the Catholic student associations KStV Eckart Mannheim, KStV Ottonia Munich and KStV Rhenania Innsbruck as well as an honorary philistine of the KStV Kurpfalz Mainz and KStV Normannia-Greifswald zu Mainz. He graduated with the doctorate to the Dr. rer. pole. from.
Orth initially worked as a commercial clerk and from 1927 to 1956 he was the manager and partner of a furniture factory in Speyer . Since 1945 he was deputy chairman of the main association of the German wood processing industry.
On March 31, 1968, Orth died of a heart attack . The burial took place in the Speyer cemetery .
Political party
Orth was a member of BVP during the Weimar Republic . After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the CDU in the Palatinate and was its chairman from 1950 to 1964.
MP
Orth was a council member of the city of Speyer and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there. In the first federal election in 1949 , he came to the German Bundestag by winning a direct mandate in the Speyer constituency and was re-elected in 1953 . After his appointment as Minister of Education and Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate , he resigned his Bundestag mandate on October 7, 1956. From 1959 until his death he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .
Public offices
After Albert Finck's death , Orth was appointed Minister for Education and Culture in the government of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier on September 11, 1956 . He held this office in the Altmeier III , IV and V cabinets until May 18, 1967.
Honors
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon , 1962
- Honorary citizenship of the city of Germersheim, 1962
- Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , 1967
- Eduard Orth Elementary School in Germersheim
- Dr.-Eduard-Orth-Strasse in Speyer
literature
- Hans Ammerich : Orth, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 598 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 623.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ KV yearbook 1958/59 . S. 488 .
Ernst Lotz (1946–1947) | Adolf Süsterhenn (1947–1951) | Albert Finck (1951–1956) | Eduard Orth (1956–1967) | Bernhard Vogel (1967–1976) | Hanna-Renate Laurien (1976–1981) | Georg Gölter (1981–1991) | Rose Götte (1991–1994) | Jürgen Zöllner (1994–2001) | Doris Ahnen (2001-2014) | Vera Reiss (2014–2016) | Stefanie Hubig (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orth, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist, entrepreneur and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germersheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1968 |
| Place of death | Mainz |