Hanns Seidel

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Hanns Seidel (left) with Konrad Adenauer , 1957

Hanns Seidel , actually Franz Wendelin Seidel (born October 12, 1901 in Schweinheim , today a district of Aschaffenburg , †  August 5, 1961 in Munich ), was a German politician ( BVP and CSU ). From 1955 to 1961 he was party chairman of the CSU and from 1957 to 1960 Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria .

Life

Seidel was the second of six children of the businessman Johann Seidel, who died in 1908. After graduating from high school in 1921 at the Humanistic Gymnasium Aschaffenburg , Seidel studied law , German and economics from 1921 to 1925 , initially in Würzburg , where he was a member of the Catholic student association K.St.V. Normannia Würzburg in the KV . He then moved to Freiburg , where he became a member of the KV connections KStV Brisgovia and in 1924 - as a co-founder - of the KStV Flamberg (now K.St.V. Flamberg in Bonn ). At the end of his studies he studied in Jena . During his training he received his doctorate in 1928 in Würzburg Dr. iur. et rer. pole. and after the assessor examination in 1930 settled as a lawyer in Aschaffenburg . From 1940 to 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served a. a. on the Eastern Front , most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve of a tank division.

Political career

In 1932 Hanns Seidel became a member of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). Arrested by the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to Lithuania for a short time , but was then able to continue working as a lawyer subject to certain conditions.

After World War II, he became the 1945 District Administrator of the district Aschaffenburg appointed. This office, in which he was confirmed by election in 1946, he held until 1947. In 1945 he joined the CSU. In 1946 he was a member of the state constituent assembly in Bavaria . From December 16, 1946 until his death, Seidel was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament in the 1st to 4th legislative period and served as Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs from September 20, 1947, and as Minister of State from October 1, 1952 to December 14, 1954 for business and traffic.

In 1955, Seidel was elected party chairman of the CSU in a vote against Franz Josef Strauss with 53.4 percent of the votes cast. Under his chairmanship there was a fundamental organizational and personnel renewal of the CSU.

Seidel reached the peak of his career when, after the break-up of the coalition of four, Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner ( SPD ) elected him to the position of Bavarian Prime Minister on October 16, 1957 . After the state elections in 1958 , he was able to continue the coalition of CSU, GB / BHE and FDP . He drove the transformation of Bavaria from an agricultural to an industrial state and, in this context, promoted the planning of the first large power plant in Gundremmingen , which was put into operation four years later after the building permit was granted in 1962. In 1958, the Teacher Education Act was passed, which reorganized teacher training and at the same time confirmed the adherence to the denominational school . Not least for this reason he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Gregory .

Seidel resigned from the office of Prime Minister on January 21, 1960 for health reasons. Until the election of Hans Ehard as his successor on January 26th, he continued to manage the office. Seidel gave up the chairmanship of the CSU in February 1961. Since 1958 he suffered from a spinal vertebra injury as a result of a car accident, which ultimately also led to his death. He died of pneumonia on August 5, 1961.

Hanns Seidel is the namesake for the Hanns-Seidel-Gymnasium in Hösbach near Aschaffenburg and the CSU-affiliated Hanns-Seidel-Foundation . Furthermore, the largest house in the student town of Freimann in Munich ( Hanns-Seidel-Haus ), an old people's home in Ottobrunn near Munich ( KWA Hanns-Seidel-Haus , 1970) and Hanns-Seidel-Platz, on which the bus station of the underground The Neuperlach Zentrum train stop is named after him.

Seidel was buried in Munich's Westfriedhof .

Honors

Publications

  • Worldview and Politics. (1960)
  • Time problems. Collected essays and lectures. (1960)
  • From the myth of public opinion. (1961)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Stump in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Ed.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , p. 95.
  2. ↑ Hanns Seidel honored with a wreath: "A formative personality" ( Main-Echo , August 6, 2011, accessed November 14, 2015)

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SURNAME Seidel, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidel, Franz Wendelin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (BVP and CSU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinheim (now part of Aschaffenburg )
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1961
Place of death Munich