Anton Schwan
Anton Hermann Schwan (born April 7, 1903 in Karlsruhe , † February 11, 1964 in Tauberbischofsheim ) was a German politician of the Center Party and later of the CDU .
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Schwan, whose father was senior government secretary in Karlsruhe, attended the humanistic Bismarck-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe and studied economics for two years at the universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg . During this time he was involved in the Catholic youth movement and was involved in founding the Catholic Middle Schools Association and a Catholic student body. After his father died in 1923, he and two of his six brothers took over the Karlsruhe paper wholesaler Jakob Trotter, which had previously belonged to his grandfather. Anton Schwan worked for this company from 1933 on as an independent sales representative . In that year he was elected as the youngest member of the center parliamentary group in the Baden state parliament, from which he had to leave a short time later due to the conformity . He took part in World War II . Towards the end of the war he was wounded near Immendingen and became a prisoner of war.
After the war, Schwan became politically active again: in autumn 1945 he was one of the co-founders of the CDU North Baden. In 1946 he took up the post of general secretary there, which he held for two years. At the same time, he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the party association, the Südwestdeutsche Union . From 1946 to 1950 he held a mandate in the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . In 1948 he was appointed district administrator of the Tauberbischofsheim district, whom he also represented in the state parliament. As a district administrator, Schwan made a decisive contribution to the development of the district. He kept the office of district administrator until his death.
Schwan was married twice: in 1930 he married Hildegard Specker, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Hildegard died in 1936, the daughter in 1940. In 1936, Schwan married Valeria Wahl, with whom he had two sons. He was buried on February 17, 1964 in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .
literature
- Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 520-521 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 520 f .
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District Office Tauberbischofsheim: Carl Valentin Dölling (1813–1827) | Joseph Maximilian Dreyer (1828–1830) | Johannes Bach (1830–1833) | Ludwig Frobenius von Dürrheim (1833–1841) | Anton Schneider (1841–1848) | Maximilian Ruth (1848–1855) | Leopold Rieder (1855–1860) | Matthias Schmieder (1860–1877) | Adolf Fuchs (1877) | Otto Frey (1877–1882) | Anton Rasina (1882–1886) | Albert Jung (1886-1893) | Edmund Lang (1893–1898) | Konrad Kretzdorn (1898–1902) | Emil Bitzel (1902–1918) | Ernst Klotz (1919–1921) | Ludwig Vesenbeckh (1921–1933) | Friedrich Denzel (1933–1935) | Hans Goll (1935–1937) | Klaus Tellenbach (1937–1938)
Tauberbischofsheim district: Klaus Tellenbach (1939–1945) | Carl Roth (1945) | Richard Reile (1945–1946) | Hermann Götz (1946–1948) | Anton Schwan (1948–1964) | Bruno Rühl (1964–1972)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swan, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swan, Anton Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Center Party, CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1964 |
| Place of death | Tauberbischofsheim |