Georg Simnacher

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Georg Simnacher (born June 10, 1932 in Ziemetshausen ; † April 28, 2014 in Burgau ) was a German lawyer and politician of the CSU in the Bavarian Swabia district in Bavaria .

Life

Simnacher initially completed an apprenticeship as a rope maker in the family tradition. After graduating from high school, he studied law in Munich and Erlangen. He received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1960 and entered the Bavarian civil service with the government of Upper Bavaria . After holding positions in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and in the Schwabmünchen district office , he was elected district administrator for the district of Günzburg in February 1967 ; he held this office until 1996. With his election, he succeeded Bruno Merk , who moved to the Bavarian State Government as Minister of the Interior . Simnacher was the youngest district administrator in Bavaria at the time. In his own party, the CSU, he was dubbed "Swabian Duke" and "Sun King", half mockingly, half in admiration, because Simnacher's leadership style also had "feudal traits".

From 1974 to 2003 he was district council president in Swabia . From 1979 to 2003 he also served as President of the Bavarian Districts, today's Bavarian District Assembly . From 1974 he was a member of the Swabian Research Association and from 1987 its deputy chairman; In addition, he was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Ludovicia Augsburg. Simnacher was buried in the Günzburg cemetery; he had chosen the grave a long time ago.

activity

In his various offices Simnacher devoted himself particularly to social and cultural policy. He initiated the reorganization of those hospitals that belonged to the Swabian district in Günzburg and Kaufbeuren and initiated the construction of new such facilities in Augsburg , Kempten , Memmingen and Lindau . The professional collaboration between the hospital in Günzburg and the predominantly medically oriented University of Ulm was also his work. One focus of these efforts was the realignment of the psychiatry departments .

In the cultural field, Simnacher was primarily concerned with the maintenance and preservation of the intellectual and architectural heritage of past centuries in his area of ​​responsibility. In 1980, on his own initiative, he succeeded in buying back the baroque choir stalls that had been sold to England after the secularization in 1803 from the church of the Buxheim monastery near Memmingen by the new owners, the Counts of Waldbott-Bassenheim , for almost DM 2 million  . His efforts for the Swabian monastery landscape took on even greater dimensions when he initiated the extensive restoration of the three abbeys of Thierhaupten , Roggenburg and Irsee . Today they are once again places of diverse cultural activities. The Swabian Folklore Museum in the Cistercian monastery Oberschönenfeld also owes its expansion to him. Furthermore, the renovation of the former synagogue in Ichenhausen and its dedication as an interreligious meeting place are based on his ideas, which he also introduced for the establishment of the science center in the travel castle near Günzburg. For further concern about these institutions, he suggested the establishment of the District Swabian Foundation. He also played a key role in the renovation of the Kurhaus theater in the Göggingen district of Augsburg. Beyond national borders, Simnacher initiated partnerships between the Swabian district, the French department Mayenne and the Romanian district of Bukowina : This is linked to the establishment of the Bukowina Institute, a current affiliate of the University of Augsburg .

Honors

Festschrift

  • Dieter Draf (Hrsg.): Swabia - Bavaria - Europe: future perspectives of the Bavarian districts; Festschrift for Dr. Georg Simnacher (on behalf of the Association of Bavarian Districts and the District of Swabia), St. Ottilien: EOS-Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-88096-652-4 .

literature

  • Andreas Roß: The Prince's Kiss: Simnacher woke districts from their deep sleep . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 9./10. June 2012, page R 14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Roß in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, see literature
  2. ^ Doris Pfister, Angela Schlenkrich: The members of the Swabian research community . In: Pankraz Fried (Ed.): 50 Years of the Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft (=  Studies on the History of Bavarian Swabia 26), Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-922518-26-6 , pp. 141 ff .; here: p. 141.
  3. ↑ see report in the Augsburger Allgemeine at augsburger-allgemeine.de
personal data
SURNAME Simnacher, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CSU)
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziemetshausen
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2014
Place of death Burgau