Otto Frommknecht
Otto Frommknecht (born November 17, 1881 in Grünenbach , Allgäu , † August 16, 1969 in Pipping (Munich) ) was a German politician and Bavarian State Minister for Transport (1947–1950).
Life
childhood and education
Otto Frommknecht was born in 1881 as the first child of the doctor Dr. Joseph Frommknecht (1854–1932) and Sophie Frommknecht (1858–1914, née Ott) and grew up with his siblings Laura (* 1882), Max (1883–1956, later priest), Sophie (* 1885), Anna ( * 1886) and Adolf (* 1887) in Schönau , a district of Grünenbach. He attended elementary school in Schönau, then the Kempten humanistic high school . Otto Frommknecht completed his studies at the Technical University in Munich, where he also received his engineering degree. Since 1901 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Vindelicia Munich and from 1922 the KDSt.V. Trifels Munich .
Working life
In 1908 Otto Frommknecht was accepted into the civil service and married that same year. From 1909 he worked as a civil engineering specialist for the Royal Bavarian State Railway (later the German State Railway). In 1919 he joined the Bavarian People's Party , of which he was a member until 1933. From 1919 to 1925 Frommknecht held the office of mayor of Obermenzing . During this time he promoted the construction of the parish church in the village and was committed to the establishment of technical emergency aid in Bavaria. Otto Frommknecht then moved to the Ministry of the Interior, where he was employed as a senior government building officer. In 1938 he was released for "political unreliability" and arrested by the Gestapo . After a year in prison, he was released. Until the end of the war he worked in the private sector. In 1945 Otto Frommknecht was appointed head of department in the Munich Railway Directorate, where he last held the office of department president. He, who has since joined the CSU , held the office of Bavarian State Minister for Transport from January 10, 1947 to December 18, 1950. He played a key role in organizing the German Transport Exhibition in 1953 , even after he left the ministerial office.
Offices
- Mayor of Obermenzing , 1919–1925
- Country manager of the technical emergency aid in Bavaria, 1920–1922
- Bavarian Government Building Council, 1925–1938
- Bavarian State Minister for Transport, 1947–1950
Awards
- 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
literature
- Herbert Mader: Grünenbacher Chronicle from the beginning to the present. The minister from Grünenbach. P. 291 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de, August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)
- ^ Emil Maurer (editor): German Transport Exhibition - Official Catalog . Carl Gabler, Munich 1953, p. 28.
Web links
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Page from Frommknecht at the Bavarian State Ministry )
Michael Helmerich (1946) | Otto Frommknecht (1947–1950) | Hans Ehard (1951–1952) | Hanns Seidel (1952–1954) | Otto Bezold (1954–1957) | Otto Schedl (1957-1970) | Anton Jaumann (1970–1988) | Gerold Tandler (1988) | August Lang (1988–1993) | Otto Wiesheu (1993-2005) | Erwin Huber (2005–2007) | Emilia Müller (2007-2008) | Martin Zeil (2008–2013) | Joachim Herrmann (2013–2018) | Ilse Aigner (2018) | Hans Reichhart (2018-2020) | Kerstin Schreyer (since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pious servant, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and Bavarian State Minister for Transport |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünenbach , Allgäu |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th August 1969 |
| Place of death | Pipping (Munich) |