Alfons Gerstl

Alfons Gerstl (born November 4, 1920 in Unteriglbach ; † November 18, 2011 in Vilshofen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Gerstl, son of a miller and sawmill, grew up on his grandparents' farm in Girching and attended elementary school in Künzing . In 1937 he moved to Regensburg with his parents . From 1937 onwards he took evening courses, during which time he also worked as a hotel servant as well as auxiliary and factory workers. Later he was also a factory employee until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Second World War and deployed on the Western Front. In August 1945 he was in northern Germany in British captivity , but fled from this. In 1946 he switched to the railroad service, where he initially worked as a line and goods floor worker, then passed a few exams and finally was a civil servant in the middle service, there mainly a supervisory officer and dispatcher. In 1948 he became chairman of the staff council and the local cartel of the DGB, a member of the district executive board of the GdED and the district committee of the Federal Railway Social Welfare Works , where he was also the main representative.

Gerstl was first elected to the city council and district council of Vilshofen in 1960. In March 1965 he was elected as the then honorary mayor of the district town. In 1962 he moved into the Bavarian state parliament . In September 1972 he resigned his mandate after he was re-elected first mayor of Vilshofen, but now on a full-time basis. His successor in the state parliament was Fritz Weber . Gerstl held the office of mayor until 1978. Until 1984 he was a member of the district council of the newly formed district of Passau . In 1993 he was appointed former mayor of Vilshofen, and in 1995 he was made an honorary citizen.

Awards

• Willy Brandt Medal
• Georg von Vollmar Medal

Web links

• Alfons Gerstl in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History