Erwin Lauerbach

Erwin Lauerbach (born September 9, 1925 in Niederwerrn ; † February 21, 2000 in Zell near Schweinfurt ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

Lauerbach was in World War II in the military service drawn in, where he worked as a pilot. In April 1945 he was so badly wounded that, among other things, one of his legs had to be amputated. He was also a Soviet prisoner of war . After the war he studied philology , passed the legal traineeship and was employed in higher teaching at several Schweinfurt high schools. He was President of the Bavarian Aviation Association and the German Aerospace League and major in the German Armed Forces . He was a member of the German Science Council , the German Aviation Council, the ZDF TV Council and the Organizing Committee of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich .

At the CSU, Lauerbach was deputy district chairman in Lower Franconia for years and was a member of the party committee. From 1956 to 1962 he was a member of the town council of Zell bei Schweinfurt, in 1960 he was elected to the district council for the first time, where he was also the group chairman of the CSU. On July 1, 1960, he replaced the late Erich Rosa in the Bavarian state parliament . In the subsequent elections he was always directly elected, so that he was a member of the state parliament until 1978. His constituency was initially called Schweinfurt-Stadt und -Land , this was added to the Schweinfurt-Nord constituency in 1974 . In June 1964 he was appointed State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture in the Goppel I cabinet, at the same time as Ludwig Huber was appointed as the new Minister. Lauerbach carried out his mandate as State Secretary in the governments of Goppel II and Goppel III and thus until 1974.

Lauerbach was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on May 14, 1965 .

Web links

• Erwin Lauerbach in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History