Georg Kronawitter

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Georg Kronawitter (born April 21, 1928 in Oberthann ; † April 28, 2016 in Munich ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was Lord Mayor of Munich from 1972 to 1978 and from 1984 to 1993 .

Life

After attending elementary school and the agricultural vocational school, he began training at the teacher training institute in 1944, but this was interrupted when he was called up for labor service during World War II. In 1946, after having worked as an unskilled worker, he was able to continue teacher training in Munich. In 1952 he caught up with the Abitur. He then studied economics, education and sociology at the University of Munich . In 1956 he passed the state examination as a certified trade teacher.

Kronawitter had been married to former member of the state parliament Hildegard Kronawitter since 1968 , with whom he had two children. He died shortly after his 88th birthday of pneumonia as a result of Parkinson's disease . Georg Kronawitter found his final resting place in Munich's Ostfriedhof .

politics

From 1966 to 1972 Georg Kronawitter was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and agricultural policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. When the then Mayor of Munich, Hans-Jochen Vogel , rejected a candidacy for a further term from 1972 to 1978 following hostility, Kronawitter became the SPD's OB candidate. Shortly after his election, the city hosted the Olympic Games .

His term of office as Mayor of Munich ended when Kronawitter no longer ran for election in 1978 because of internal party disputes in the Munich SPD. The SPD candidacy took over the then city treasurer Max von Heckel , who was defeated by the CSU candidate Erich Kiesl . After losing the election, Kronawitter slowly regained the support of his party. In the 1984 mayoral election, Kronawitter then prevailed as the SPD candidate in an energetic election campaign against Kiesl. In the runoff election he won with 58.3 percent of the vote. However, due to two defectors, the SPD lost its majority in the Munich city council in 1987. Kronawitter then had to fight with CSU parliamentary group leader Walter Zöller and his so-called "design majority ". Nevertheless, Kronawitter was able to prevail again in the mayoral election in 1990 against Hans Klein (CSU). To the surprise of his own party, too, he pushed through a red - green town hall alliance. Kronawitter resigned in 1993 in favor of his successor Christian Ude . From 1994 to 1998 Kronawitter was again a member of the Bavarian state parliament . He won the direct mandate in the Munich-Mitte district.

Kronawitter's political credo was that the SPD only had a chance if “it gives the lower third of society the signal to represent their interests.” In the manifesto “Save our cities now!”, The Kronawitter 1994 with seven other mayors had written, he demanded “a big city cannot only be a living space for the wealthy”. During his tenure as Lord Mayor, over 120,000 new apartments were built. In addition to the expansion of the Munich transport and tariff association , the establishment of the Gasteig cultural center and the creation of the Westpark were milestones in Kronawitter's tenure.

Kronawitter significantly supported the successful citizens' petition Initiative-Unser-Munich, in which it was decided in 2004 with 50.8 percent yes-votes that no high-rise buildings may be built in Munich that tower above the towers of the Frauenkirche (99 meters). The turnout was 21.9%.

Honors

Georg Kronawitters grave in the Ostfriedhof Munich (photo: January 27, 2018)

Kronawitter was made an honorary citizen of the city of Munich in 1993 for his commitment to social justice and the ecological dimensions of city politics . In 1978 he received the Ludwig Thoma Medal for courage and civil courage and the Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Munich , and in 1997 the Bavarian Order of Merit .

In 2018, an area between Färbergraben and Fürstenfelder Strasse at the level of the “Hofstatt” and “Kaufinger Tor” passages of the open spaces around Sattlerstrasse in the Hackenviertel of Munich's old town was named “ Georg-Kronawitter-Platz ”.

Trivia

From 2008 to April 30, 2014 there was a Munich city council of the CSU named Georg Kronawitter (born 1952). He is a second nephew of the former mayor.

Publications

  • Georg Kronawitter: Munich will stay what it is: the cosmopolitan city with a heart . SPD sub-district, Munich 1973.
  • Georg Kronawitter (Ed.): Save our cities now! - The Lord Mayors' manifesto . Econ Verlag, Munich 1994.
  • Georg Kronawitter: What I think . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1996. ISBN 978-3-44212-614-9
  • Georg Kronawitter: With all passion: 20 years of politics for Munich . Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-934036-45-7
  • Georg Kronawitter: My own way: memories and concerns . Volk Verlag, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-86222-156-1

Web links

Commons : Georg Kronawitter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ We mourn Georg Kronawitter . ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Report from the Munich SPD, April 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Wife of Georg Kronawitter: "He said goodbye to everyone"
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Georg Kronawitter
  4. ↑ Hans-Jochen Vogel : The chain of office . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich, 1972, ISBN 3-7991-5685-2 , pp. 213 and 299.
  5. ↑ Hans-Jochen Vogel : Forbearances: My years in Bonn and Berlin . Piper, Munich / Zurich, 1996, ISBN 3-492-03828-X , p. 14 f.
  6. ↑ Josef Joffe : On March 5th, the Bavarian metropolis will elect its mayor and a new city parliament: Munich will soon be black again? In: Die Zeit , No. 9, February 24, 1978.
  7. ^ Rolf Henkel: Poor dog. In: Die Zeit , No. 18, April 28, 1978.
  8. ↑ Wichtl against Hundling . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1984, pp. 62-64 ( Online - Mar. 12, 1984 ).
  9. ↑ Georg Kronawitter: Being strong for the little ones . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1993, pp. 30-33, here p. 30 ( online - November 22, 1993 ).
  10. ↑ www.muenchen.de: Mourning the Former Mayor Georg Kronawitter , accessed on May 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Citizens' decision: High-rise ban for Munich. In: Spiegel Online . November 22, 2004, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Renaming of the street Georg-Kronawitter-Platz. In: www.muenchen.de . City administration of Munich, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
  13. ^ Munich gets a Georg-Kronawitter-Platz. In: SZ.de . September 19, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Hackenviertel. In: www.muenchen.de. City administration of Munich, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Georg-Kronawitter-Platz. In: www.muenchen.de. City administration Munich, September 19, 2018, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
  16. ^ Website of Georg Kronawitter: Former Mayor Georg Kronawitter
personal data
SURNAME Kronawitter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Munich
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberthann
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2016
Place of death Munich