Alfons Goppel
Alfons Goppel (born October 1, 1905 in Reinhausen , Stadtamhof district office (today Regensburg ), Kingdom of Bavaria ; † December 24, 1991 in Johannesberg , Aschaffenburg district ) was a German politician ( CSU ). From 1962 to 1978 he was Prime Minister of Bavaria .
Live and act
Alfons Goppel was the fourth of nine children of a simple family of craftsmen from Reinhausen near Regensburg . His older sister Elisabeth is the mother of the bishop emeritus of Augsburg , Konrad Zdarsa .
From 1916 to 1925 he attended the Albertus Magnus High School in Regensburg . After graduating from high school, Alfons Goppel studied law in Munich from 1925 to 1929 . Here he became an active member of the Catholic student association K. St. V. Erwinia, later also the K. St. V. Agilolfia Regensburg, the KSStV Alemannia Munich and the K. St. V. Ottonia Munich, all in the cartel association of Catholic German student associations (KV) . After completing his legal training, Goppel first settled as a lawyer in Regensburg, where in 1933 he took over the office of the Jewish lawyer Isaak Meyer, who had fled to Palestine. His political career began in 1930 when he joined the Bavarian People's Party . In November 1933 he became a member of the SA and in 1937 of the NSDAP . In 1937 he volunteered for the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War , Goppel was deployed on the western and eastern fronts. Most recently he was first lieutenant d. R. and weapons and tactics teacher at the Döberitz infantry school .
After the Second World War , Goppel joined the newly founded Christian-Social Union. In 1947 he became the district administrator of the district Aschaffenburg chosen by the Interior Ministry not been confirmed with regard to its Nazi party membership. In 1952 he became the second mayor of the city of Aschaffenburg . In 1954 he became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , to which he was a member until 1978.
From 1957 to 1958 Goppel was State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice , until 1962 he held the office of Interior Minister under Hanns Seidel and Hans Ehard . From 1958 to 1969 he was chairman of the old gentlemen's association of his original student union Erwinia. On December 11, 1962, he succeeded Ehard in the office of Prime Minister .
Goppel was Prime Minister of Bavaria for 16 years until he was replaced by Franz Josef Strauss on November 7, 1978 . This makes Goppel the longest-serving Bavarian Prime Minister to date. The 62.1% of the vote in the 1974 state elections , which he achieved under his top candidacy, is still the best result for the CSU and the second-best result that a party achieved in state elections in Germany. This was only exceeded in 1948 , when the (West) Berlin SPD under Ernst Reuter achieved 64.5% of the vote . At the end of his tenure as Prime Minister, Goppel pardoned the former SS- Untererscharführer Alois Dörr , who was sentenced to life in prison in 1969 as commandant of the Helmbrechts satellite camp . Goppels greatest achievement during his 16-year tenure is a profound structural change in Bavaria, which modernized education, infrastructure and industry in the 1960s and 1970s. New high schools and universities were set up, many roads in the country were paved, and promising developments such as vehicle and mechanical engineering, the aerospace industry and nuclear power plants were promoted. This made Bavaria, which was shaped by the agricultural economy, a leading industrial location within the Federal Republic of Germany, as a result of which it developed from a recipient country to a donor country within the framework of the state financial equalization . The regional reform in Bavaria also began under Goppel in 1971 .
From 1979 to 1984 Goppel spent the last years of his political life in the European Parliament . On January 8, 1980, the Alfons Goppel Foundation was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior as a public foundation under civil law with its seat in Munich in accordance with Section 80 of the Civil Code and Articles 3, 5 and 6 of the Foundation Act. It was presented to the public at a ceremony on January 15, 1980 in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. At the founding meeting of the foundation, the then Minister of Agriculture, Hans Eisenmann Goppel, proposed that the idea of promoting youth and education in developing countries be linked to his name. Goppel agreed and made a promise on behalf of his family that they would carry on his legacy with trust and respect. His family continues to run it to this day.
With his wife Gertrud (nee Wittenbrink) he had six sons, including the politician Thomas Goppel , the former Director-General of the Euratom Supply Agency , Michael Goppel, the former chief physician of internal medicine and medical director of the Mühldorf am Inn Clinic, Ludger Goppel and the former director of the Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management , Christoph Goppel.
Alfons Goppel died on Christmas Eve 1991 in Johannesberg . He was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich .
Christoph, Thomas, Alfons and Gertrud Goppel (both children of Ludger Goppel) continue to manage the Alfons Goppel Foundation together with Mr. Hess as a board member.
Awards and honors (extract)
Goppel was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1961 and the Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1963 . In 1965 Goppel became an honorary citizen of the state capital Munich , 1975 of the city of Regensburg and 1981 of the city of Hof . In 1975 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic as well as the Silesian Shield and in 1977 the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . In 1981 he was honored with the Lucius D. Clay Medal . In 1987 the KV awarded him the Georg von Hertling Medal .
A vocational school center in Schweinfurt is named after him. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, a street in Munich was named after him on October 1st, 2005 . In 2008 a place in Aschaffenburg followed.
Publications
- Talk. Selected manuscripts from the years 1958–1965 . Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1965.
- Bavaria, Germany, Europe. Festschrift for Alfons Goppel . Edited by Ludwig Huber. Passavia-Verlag, Passau 1975.
literature
- Andreas Bitterhof, Renate Höpfinger : Prime Minister Alfons Goppel. December 11, 1962 to November 7, 1978. In: General Directorate of the State Archives (ed.): The most beautiful office in the world. Munich 1999, pp. 116-146.
- Claudia Friemberger: Alfons Goppel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 509-518.
- Claudia Friemberger: Alfons Goppel. From local politician to Bavarian Prime Minister. Munich 2001.
- Claudia Friemberger, Ferdinand Kramer (Ed.): Retrospectives 1957-1984 by the Bavarian Prime Minister Alfons Goppel. St. Ottilien 2005.
- Hanns Seidel Foundation (Ed.): Bavaria in Transition. Alfons Goppel Prime Minister for 15 years. (= Political Studies 1977.4). Munich 1977.
- Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: Alfons Goppel (1905–1991) In: Jürgen Aretz (Hrsg.): Contemporary history in life pictures. Münster 2001, pp. 260-279.
- Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: Dynamic Change and Continuity. The Goppel era (1962–1978). In: Ders .: From the end of the war to the end of the Goppel era (1945–1978). In: Alois Schmid (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte. Volume 4: The new Bavaria from 1800 to the present. Volume 1: State and Politics. 2nd, completely revised edition. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50451-5 , pp. 857-957.
- Ludwig Huber (Ed.): Bavaria, Germany, Europe. Festschrift for Alfons Goppel. Passau 1975.
- Margret Kopp (Ed.): Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Dr. hc Alfons Goppel. October 1, 1995. Munich 1995.
- Stefan March : Alfons Goppel. Country father between tradition and modernity (short Bavarian biographies). Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2788-2 .
- Stefanie Siebers-Gfaller: From Utopia to Europe. Alfons Goppel, October 1, 1905 to December 24, 1991; biographical notes. Munich 1996.
- Hans Zehetmair (ed.): Balance of a fulfilled life. Alfons Goppel on his 100th birthday. Munich 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfons Goppel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Alfons Goppel in the Members' database of the European Parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ Waltraud Bierwirth: "The company is de-Jewish". Shame in Regensburg 1933 - 1945. , Regensburg 2017, p. 27.
- ^ A b Max Spindler, Dieter Albrecht, Alois Schmid: Handbook of Bavarian History. Volume IV, C. H. Beck, Munich 2003, 1, p. 860.
- ^ Bavarian State Chancellery : The Bavarian Prime Ministers: Dr. hc Alfons Goppel. ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Source: Andreas Bitterhof and Renate Höpfinger. Excerpt from: The most beautiful office in the world. 1999.
- ↑ Peter Engelbrecht: The war is over. Spring 1945 in Upper Franconia . Späthling, Weißenstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-942668-23-1 , pp. 84 .
- ↑ Goppel as "father of all reforms" according to SZ from December 19, 2016, accessed on December 3, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goppel, Alfons |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CSU), MdL, MdEP |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reinhausen |
DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1991 |
Place of death | Johannesberg |