Otto Klenert

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Otto Klenert (born February 14, 1915 in Karlsruhe , † January 7, 1993 in Bad Friedrichshall ) was a German mayor and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Klenert was the son of the postmaster Hermann Klenert. After graduating from high school , from 1933 to 1938 he worked as an administrative trainee and civil servant candidate for the Karlsruhe city ​​administration . After he had applied for the consulate service and passed the required language test in English and French, he was appointed as a consulate intern at the Foreign Office in Berlin in November 1938 . In February 1939 he came to the German embassy in Stockholm as consulate secretary . From July 1940 to May 1945 he did military service with Infantry Regiment 379 of the 169th Infantry Division , which was deployed in the Finnish-Russian border region near Kandalakscha . His last rank was Captain of the Reserve . He became a British prisoner of war , from which he was released in August 1945.

From November 1945 until the fall of 1946, he studied for two semesters Law at the University of Heidelberg , but then went as a clerk for the Ministry of Economics Baden Württemberg in Stuttgart , where he worked from January 1947 to April 1948.

In the spring of 1948 he ran for Mayor of Bad Friedrichshall. In the second ballot on March 21, 1948, he received the most votes, and on April 16, 1948 he took up the office, which he held, with re-elections in 1954 and 1966, for almost exactly 30 years until April 14, 1978. One of his first major tasks was to pacify the citizenship after the outcome of a citizens' vote, which on September 4, 1949 in all three districts of the time (Jagstfeld, Kochendorf and Hagenbach ) clear majorities of over 75% in favor of breaking up the municipality of Bad, which was only created in 1933 and 1935 Friedrichshall revealed. The Württemberg-Baden state parliament did not follow this vote in a decision of November 17, 1949 to the indignation of many citizens.

Klenert then looked for a “new beginning”. He was able to convince the local council to apply to the state government to give Bad Friedrichshall the designation city . Not all members of the municipal council took this proposal seriously, but it was successful, and Bad Friedrichshall was promoted to town on June 12, 1951 by a resolution of the state government, which resulted in corresponding celebrations in the new town. After creating a new sense of community, the municipal council and mayor were able to tackle emergencies and merge the city districts over the next few decades. The housing and school space shortages had to be remedied, the infrastructure such as roads, water pipes, sewers and sewage treatment plants had to be improved and land consolidations initiated. The foundation stone for the new town center of Bad Friedrichshall between Jagstfeld and Kochendorf was also laid with the inauguration of the new secondary school on May 7, 1965 and the new town hall on October 14, 1967 during Klenert's term of office. In the 1970s, Klenert accompanied the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , which in 1975 led to the incorporation of the communities of Duttenberg and Untergriesheim into the city of Bad Friedrichshall.

Klenert joined the CDU soon after it was founded. From 1959 to 1984 he was a member of the district council of the Heilbronn district and was a CDU parliamentary leader there for a long time. He strongly advocated the construction of the Plattenwald district hospital on Bad Friedrichshaller district, which was opened in 1977. From 1964 to September 30, 1973, Klenert represented the constituency Heilbronn-Land I in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . Then he resigned the mandate, and Hermann Mühlbeyer moved up for him in the state parliament.

In 1978 a candidate close to the CDU and an SPD member ran for his successor as mayor. After the SPD member Peter Knoche had clearly won the election in the first ballot on January 15, 1978, the then CDU city association chairman of Bad Friedrichshall publicly accused Klenert of being largely responsible for the CDU defeat, as he had prevented more suitable candidates . Klenert then resigned from the CDU city association (not from the party) and stated that everyone had to respect the citizens' decision for Knoche.

family

Otto Klenert married in 1945. The marriage resulted in two daughters.

Awards

The city of Bad Friedrichshall awarded Otto Klenert the Golden Medal of Honor in 1968 and the Golden Ring of Honor in 1973. After the end of his term of office, he was made the first honorary citizen of the city on April 14, 1978 by a unanimous decision of the municipal council. In the same year he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class , and in 1985 the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . On March 2, 1993, in his honor, the Bad Friedrichshall Realschule was renamed Otto Klenert Realschule Bad Friedrichshall and on May 30, 2017 the Bad Friedrichshall School Association was renamed Otto Klenert School Bad Friedrichshall Realschule & Werkrealschule .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on June 12, 2019 .

literature

  • Rudolf Conzelmann: Mayor, local councils and local councils. In: Bad Friedrichshall. Volume 3. City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 2001, pp. 59–72
  • Lothar Hantsch: The mayors of Bad Friedrichshall - 1933 to 1983. In: Bad Friedrichshall. 1933-1983. City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983, pp. 443–447
  • Frank-Roland Kühnel: state parliaments, members of parliament and constituencies in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2009. From the provisional parliament of Württemberg-Baden to the 14th state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-923476-01-5 , p. 208
  • Josef Weik: The members of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2003. 7th edition. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-923476-03-5 , p. 81

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personal data
SURNAME Klenert, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mayor and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1993
Place of death Bad friedrichshall