Anton Dichtel

Anton Dichtel (born September 18, 1901 in Brilon , † April 29, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician (first Center Party , later CDU ).

Life

Dichtel attended school in Brilon and then worked as a union secretary. After the First World War he worked in Halle (Saale) and Magdeburg and from 1925 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Since the late 1920s, Dichtel was also politically active. He belonged to the executive committee of the Center Party and was also a member of the municipal council of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau for this party . In the Third Reich he lost his offices, was temporarily arrested and then worked in the food industry.

After the Second World War , Dichtel was a founding member of the CDU, for which he moved back into the municipal council in Freiburg, and later he was also a member of the federal executive committee of his party. In 1946, Dichtel was briefly State Commissioner for Nutrition in South Baden in the State Secretariat in Wohleb . He was also elected to the state parliament of the state of Baden , which existed until 1952 , where he chaired the CDU parliamentary group. After the formation of the state of Baden-Württemberg , from 1953, Dichtel belonged to the cabinet under Prime Minister Gebhard Müller as an honorary councilor with voting rights . On May 6, 1958, he resigned from this office because he was appointed regional president of the administrative district of South Baden . His successor as State Councilor in the Müller cabinet was Hans Filbinger . As early as October 1, 1957, Dichtel had renounced his mandate as a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , which he had held for the constituency of Offenburg since the state elections in 1956. But he remained chairman of the CDU in southern Baden until he resigned from this office in 1966. During his time as district president u. a. first political post-war contacts in Alsace with the then mayor of Colmar, Joseph Rey , who had been imprisoned with him in Freiburg under the National Socialists. His term of office as president ended in 1967. After that, Dichtel withdrew from active politics. In the early 1970s, however, he was still an expert in matters relating to district reform in Baden-Württemberg. The Baden state parliament elected him to the first Federal Assembly in 1949. In 1959, 1964 and 1969 he was sent again to the Federal Assembly by the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.

Honors

In 1952, Dichtel was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , in 1958 with the Great Cross of Merit with a Star and in 1967 with the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon, in 1967 with the " Lever Thanks" of the Leerrach Association and in 1969 with the Johann-Peter-Hebel- Badge . In 1971 he became an honorary citizen of Freiburg im Breisgau, in 1967 of Bad Krozingen , 1968 of Bernau and 1969 of (Bad) Bellingen. He was also an honorary senator of the University of Freiburg.

In 1965 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Rome on June 2, 1965 . He was most recently an officer of the order.

Individual evidence

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