Eduard Lais

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Eduard Lais (born May 29, 1893 in Präg ; † December 12, 1974 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German economist and politician ( BCSV , CDU ).

Life

Eduard Lais was born on May 29, 1893 as the son of the farmer Kornel Lais in Präg near Todtnau . After attending the local elementary school and the community school in Schönau in the Black Forest , he passed the Abitur at the Friedrich Gymnasium in Freiburg in 1914 . He then did military service and took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1915 to 1918 . For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class . In 1919 he began studying economics and theology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , which he graduated in 1922. 1923 doctorate he with Professor Paul Mombert to Dr. rer. pole. (Dissertation: The population of the parish of Schönau and their economy in the 17th and 18th centuries ).

After completing his studies, Lais worked briefly in the private sector. He had worked as a research assistant at the Chamber of Commerce in Schopfheim since 1923 and was its deputy in-house counsel from 1929 to 1933. In 1927 he joined the Center Party . After the National Socialists came to power in 1934, he was transferred to the Chamber of Commerce in Constance for political reasons . He then worked for the Chamber of Commerce in Karlsruhe until 1935 , and from November 1934 as a lawyer. From 1935 to 1945 he worked for the Chamber of Commerce in Freiburg, where he joined the Catholic student union Unitas Freiburg, and since April 1937 he acted as its deputy managing director with responsibility for supplying the industry with raw materials.

After the Second World War, Lais worked from May 1945 to 1948 as managing director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lahr . In December 1945 he was a founding member of the Baden Christian Social People's Party (BCSV), from which the CDU South Baden regional association emerged in 1947 . From November 1946 to May 1947 he was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Baden for the Lahr district .

Lais served from February 4, 1948 to April 25, 1952 (the ministry was dissolved on May 17, 1952) as Minister of Economics and Labor in the government of the State of Baden led by President Leo Wohleb . During his tenure he campaigned against the French dismantling interests, promoted reconstruction and carried out the change to a social market economy.

After the formation of the Southwest State , which Lais rejected, he was from 1952 to 1956 a member of the state constituent assembly (1952-1953) and a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg (1953-1956) and deputy chairman of the economic and transport committee. A renewed discussion by the Christian Democrats about maintaining the south-western state led in 1970, after this was decided by the delegates of the party congress, to Lai's exit from the CDU.

Lais worked for the Freiburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1952. After retiring, he ran a bookbinding business that published the Black Forest calendar. He died on December 12, 1974 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Eduard Lais was married for the first time and had one child who died early. His wife also died in September 1924. In October 1925 he married Luise Rosa Okle for the second time. From this relationship three daughters were born.

See also

literature

  • Landtag of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): MdL, The Members of the Landtag in Baden-Württemberg 1946–1978 , Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-911930-2 , p. 148.
  • Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien , New Series, Volume II , W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 978-3-17-009217-4 , p. 180.
  • Paul Feuchte: Sources on the creation of the constitution of the state of Baden from 1947 , Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-015059-6 , p. 61.
  • Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1953 from August 24, 1953.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 1 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1995, p. 346 .
personal data
SURNAME Lais, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (BCSV, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Coined
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1974
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau