Franz Josef Delonge

Franz Josef Delonge (born June 24, 1927 in Hambach near Jülich , † June 10, 1988 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and local politician. Since 1968 he was a member of the Munich city council and was chairman of the CSU parliamentary group from 1978 to 1984 . The focus of his local political work under Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl (CSU) was building and planning law, the modernization of local government and the promotion of popular sport.

Life

Delonge was born in Hambach, Rhineland. As a young man he was drafted into the Wehrmacht during World War II .

After the end of the war, Delonge came to Munich. There he passed his Abitur and then began studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . At the same time he worked at Radio Free Europe . After his exams, he settled in Munich as a lawyer.

He began his social engagement in 1952 when he joined the Danubia Munich fraternity . Three years later he took over the management of the Burschentag in Landau and was then a long time member of the main committee of the German fraternity and for some time also a member of the legal committee. In 1957 he joined the CSU. In the Schwabing district , where Delonge lived, he was initially elected chairman of the district committee and was also chairman of the CSU district association Schwabing. In 1968 he moved into the Munich City Council, to which he belonged continuously until his death in June 1988. After the local elections in March 1978, in which the CSU won an absolute majority in Munich for the first time, Delonge - meanwhile also deputy district chairman of the Munich CSU - was elected chairman of the CSU parliamentary group. In this function, together with the newly elected Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl (also CSU) , he shaped the city's politics for the next six years. Despite a significant loss of votes and the loss of the absolute majority, the CSU emerged as the strongest party in local elections in 1984.

In addition to his municipal political tasks, Delonge was a member of the board of directors of the Bar Association, was Consul General of the Republic of Sri Lanka and legal advisor of the TSV 1860 Munich sports club . He was also a member of the supervisory board of Erdgas Südbayern , deputy supervisory board of Olympiapark München GmbH and a member of the administrative board of Stadtsparkasse München .

family

Delonge was married to Marie Therese Hubensteiner, the sister of the historian Benno Hubensteiner . This marriage resulted in three sons, the judge and game designer Franz-Benno Delonge and his two younger brothers Florian and Veit.

Honors

In 1980 the state capital Munich honored Delonge with the medal Munich shines in gold. In 1982 he received the silver medal for special services to local government . The CSU city council group honored him with the Golden Ring of Honor in 1984.

By resolution of May 10, 2006, a new road near the Munich-Southwest motorway triangle in the Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied district was named after him.

Works

• Councilor then and now. Texts from the Munich City Hall. Vol. 1, Munich 1979
• Protestants in Munich. Texts from the Munich City Hall. Vol. 2, Munich 1979

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 189.