Erwin Sinnwell

Erwin Sinnwell (born March 17, 1929 in Hüttersdorf ; † September 12, 2014 ) was a German business graduate , manager and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending school and graduating from the Gymnasium am Stadtgarten (Saarlouis) , Sinnwell began studying at the universities of Mainz , Cologne and Innsbruck , which ended with an examination for a business degree and a doctorate in economics. Since 1951 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Rappoltstein (Strasbourg) Cologne . In 1954, at the instigation of Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann, he became a consultant for economic issues in the Saarland Office for European and Foreign Affairs. A year later, however, he fired him because of his pro-German stance. He then worked for a time as a publicist.

Sinnwell switched to banking and in 1958 became deputy head of the Kreissparkasse Saarlouis . From 1964 to 1966 he took part in a development aid project in Egypt , where he set up a savings bank system on behalf of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV). In 1968 he became chairman of the board of the Kreissparkasse Saarlouis and from 1969 to 1974 acted as general director of the International Institute of Savings Banks in Geneva . 1974 to 1976 he was Saarland's Minister of Economic Affairs. After leaving the ministerial office, he was chairman of the board of the Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz from 1977 to 1984 . Later he was Chairman of the Advisory Board of Globus SB-Warenhaus Holding GmbH & Co. KG in St. Wendel until 1995 .

Erwin Sinnwell was married and had a son and a daughter.

politics

Sinnwell was one of the founders of the Saar CDU and was appointed Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport and Agriculture on January 23, 1974 to the Saarland government led by Prime Minister Franz-Josef Röder . In the state elections in May 1975, he was elected to the Saarland state parliament , to which he belonged until his resignation on November 10, 1976. After the formation of a black-yellow coalition , he resigned from the state government on March 1, 1977 and was replaced in his ministerial office by the FDP politician Werner Klumpp .

Honors

1975: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
1980: Saarland Order of Merit

literature

Erwin Sinnwell , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1974 of February 25, 1974, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Erwin Sinnwell on saarland-biografien.de

Individual evidence

↑ Obituaries. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of September 20, 2014 (accessed on September 23, 2014).
^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 38 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken November 12, 1980, p. 986 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 230 kB ; accessed on May 30, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Sinnwell, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German business graduate, manager and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hüttersdorf
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 2014

[1] Obituaries. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of September 20, 2014 (accessed on September 23, 2014).

[svo-2] Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 38 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken November 12, 1980, p. 986 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 230 kB ; accessed on May 30, 2017]).