Alfons Dawo

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Alfons Dawo (born April 22, 1895 in Blieskastel ; † July 20, 1968 in St. Ingbert ) was a Saarland politician ( Zentrum / CVP / CDU ).

After elementary school Dawo attended the Latin school in Blieskastel and the humanistic Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken . He then studied economics in Munich and Cologne and then took over the parents' drugstore in Blieskastel in 1920.

In the same year he joined the Center Party. From 1924 until the reintegration of the Saarland into the German Reich in 1935 he was city councilor in Blieskastel. Dawo was not politically active during the Third Reich. After the war, he was elected mayor of Blieskastel in 1945.

From 1952 to 1965 he was a member of the Saarland state parliament  - first for the CVP, later for the CDU. From 1959 to 1961 he held the office of President of the State Parliament . After Arthur Heitschmidt's death (1963) until his retirement, he was the age president of the state parliament.

Dawo had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich since 1914 .

Alfons Dawo was married to Clara Dawo, b. Curse; they had seven children, u. a. the artist and art educator Sofie Dawo (1926–2010).

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SURNAME There, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saarland politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Blieskastel
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1968
Place of death St. Ingbert