Dionys Jobst

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Dionys Jobst (born September 5, 1927 in Teublitz ; † March 25, 2017 ) was a German politician ( CSU ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from October 20, 1969 to October 26, 1998 (eight electoral terms) .

Training and military service

After attending secondary school , Jobst was a flak helper , in the Reich Labor Service and later in the Wehrmacht . He was wounded and taken prisoner of war . In 1947 he graduated from high school . Jobst then studied at the University of Munich until 1950 law and received his doctorate there in 1954. The following year, he completed the second state examination .

Members' activities

In 1969 he was elected to the Bundestag for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) through a direct mandate from the Schwandorf constituency. There he was for many years chairman of the transport committee, president of the rail parliamentary group and chairman of the German- Japanese parliamentary group . For the latter activity he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun with a shoulder ribbon in 1990.

In 1978 he moved in the Bundestag that the government should loose Franz Beckenbauer from Cosmos New York for the World Cup . Jobst later admitted that he wanted to have made headlines with this proposal, which was not meant to be serious. In 1993 it made the front pages of the feature pages again when the picture in the political summer slump involuntarily brought it into the headlines with its joking but misunderstood proposal to buy Mallorca for 50 billion marks as the 17th state .

Extra-parliamentary activities

During his studies he was a working student . After his second state examination, he worked for the government of the Upper Palatinate as a government assessor , and later he was a legal state official at the district administration . He had been with the Deutsche Bundesbahn since 1956 , most recently as a department head at the Regensburg Federal Railway Directorate . He sat on the supervisory board of Erste Bayerische Basaltstein AG Steinmühle , on the administrative board of DSL Bank and on the board of the Friends of Tel Aviv University . Jobst was a member of the North Atlantic Assembly .

Private

Jobst was a Catholic and lived as a pensioner in Teublitz.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in: Mittelbayerische Zeitung Schwandorf . March 27, 2017 ( Mittelbayerische-trauer.de [accessed March 27, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Mallorca still not 17th state . Friend of the people. August 22, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jobst, Dionys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Teublitz
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2017