Ernst Leitz III

Ernst Leitz III (* 16th January 1906 in Wetzlar , † 8. September 1979 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German entrepreneur and politician of the CDU .

Life

Ernst Leitz was the second son of industrialist Ernst Leitz II and grandson of the company founder Ernst Leitz I . From 1915 to 1920, like his siblings Elsie , Günther and Ludwig, he was a student of the reform pedagogical Free School Community of Wickersdorf . Ernst Leitz graduated from high school in 1924 and worked as a businessman. He was born with Christina Leitz. Punger, used Maul-Punger, married, who worked as a lawyer and notary in Friedberg .

He joined his father's company and held a leading position there. The sources are contradicting the role in the company: Lengemann (1986) states that he was managing director of Ernst Leitz GmbH in Wetzlar from 1928 onwards . The Munzinger archive states that he and his brothers Ludwig and Günther became managing directors of the family company after the death of their father in 1956. Parisius / Scholl-Seibert report that he was managing director of the Leitz works for 44 years.

politics

Leitz became politically active from 1945. He was one of the founders of the CDU in Wetzlar and was the founding chairman of the CDU Wetzlar. Until 1953 he was also district chairman of the CDU in the district of Wetzlar . He was a member of the state board of the CDU Hessen from 1958 to 1967. In 1958 he co-founded the economic forum of the CDU Hessen in Frankfurt am Main .

After the Second World War, in May 1945 he was a member of the city committee of the city of Wetzlar, the predecessor of the city council. Since the local elections in Hesse in 1946 , he was a member of the city council. As a member of the city council, he worked for 30 years until he left in 1975. He was honored with the honorary title of city elder.

From February 26, 1946 to July 14, 1946 he was a member of the Advisory State Committee .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 320 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 239.
• "... towards democracy" - The minutes of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946 - A documentation , edited by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl-Seibert, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , page 40– 41

Web links

• Leitz, Ernst. Hessian biography. (As of January 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Student directory of the Free School Community Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.