Franz-Josef Röder

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Franz-Josef Röder (center) with Konrad Adenauer (left) and Helmut Bulle (right)

Franz-Josef Röder (born July 22, 1909 in Merzig , † June 26, 1979 in Saarbrücken ) was Prime Minister of Saarland from 1959 to 1979 and regional chairman of the CDU Saar (1959–1973).

Life and work

Röders membership card in the National Socialist Teachers' Association (1934)

Röder studied Romance languages ​​and geography in Freiburg im Breisgau , Innsbruck and Münster , and completed his studies with a doctorate . Then he entered the school service. In 1934 he became a member of the National Socialist teachers' association . Since he was close to Catholicism, he was initially rejected for the German foreign school service, but was finally accepted. From 1937 to 1945 he worked in the international school service for the DAAD in the Netherlands. After the war he first worked as an interpreter for the railway. From 1948 Röder returned to school work, most recently as senior director of studies at the secondary school in Dillingen / Saar .

Röder was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Falkenstein zu Freiburg in the CV . He was married to Magdalene Spieß (1917-2005). The marriage resulted in four daughters and one son.

Political party

Röders membership card in the NSDAP (1933)

On August 1, 1933, Röder was accepted into the NSDAP (membership number 2,697,692, local group Neunkirchen (Saar) ). After being approved by the CDU Saar , Röder joined it in 1955 and was its local chairman in Dillingen / Saar until 1959. From 1959 to 1973 he was regional chairman of the Saar CDU.

MP

From 1955 until his death Roeder was a deputy in the parliament of Saarland .

Röder was a member of the German Bundestag from January 4, 1957, when he was a member of the Saarland after the accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany , until the end of the second legislative period .

Public offices

Candidate poster for the 1965 federal election
Franz-Josef Röder (right), 1961

The first CDU cabinet under Prime Minister Egon Reinert (June 4, 1957– January 21, 1959) belonged to Franz-Josef Röder as Minister for Culture, Education and Public Education. Prime Minister Reinert died on April 23, 1959 in a car accident.

On April 30, 1959, Röder was elected Prime Minister of Saarland. After the elections in December 1960 , a new coalition cabinet between the CDU and the FDP / DPS under Röder was elected on January 3, 1961 . From July 1970 he formed a CDU sole government after the Christian Democrats had won an absolute majority in the state elections.

In the state elections in 1975 there was a stalemate between the CDU on the one hand and the SPD and FDP on the other. Röder initially continued to rule with a minority government. In March 1977 he succeeded in forming a coalition with the FDP / DPS, so that he again had a parliamentary majority. The number of members of the state parliament was later increased from 50 to 51 in the constitution so that such a stalemate could no longer arise.

From November 1, 1959 to October 31, 1960 and from November 1, 1969 to October 31, 1970 he was President of the Federal Council .

On June 25, 1979, Röder announced that he would no longer run for Prime Minister in 1980 and proposed Werner Zeyer as his successor; he passed away the following day, so his announcement echoed like a legacy.

See also: Cabinet Röder I , Cabinet Röder II , Cabinet Röder III , Cabinet Röder IV , Cabinet Röder V , Cabinet Röder VI

Monument on the Saar Bridge in Dillingen

Political activity

Under Röder, support for hard coal mining played an essential role. As a result, it was one of the most discussed topics in the Saarland state parliament. This was related to the ongoing coal crisis . Mine closings and a very controversial diversification of the Saar mines were the result.

In terms of economic policy, the infrastructure measures in the state, the resolution for the Saar-Palatinate Canal and the modernization of industry were of particular importance. There was a paradigm shift in cultural and educational policy under the longstanding Minister of Education, Werner Scherer , who was considered Crown Prince Röders. The CDU Saar said goodbye to the denominational school model of the 1950s.

Domestically, the Röder government implemented the most comprehensive regional and administrative reform of the Saarland to date . On January 1, 1974, 345 independent municipalities were replaced by 50 Saarland unified municipalities in five districts and the Saarbrücken city association.

Röder played an important role in domestic and foreign policy in the Willy Brandt government's negotiations on the Eastern Treaty , when Saarland was at times " tipping the scales " in the Federal Council and mediating between Bonn and Warsaw.

Honors - awards

  • The Saarland city of Dillingen , where Röder lived for ten years, officially named a new bridge over the Saar , which connects the city with Rehlingen-Siersburg , after Franz-Josef Röder in July 2010 .
  • In Saarbrücken, the street on which the Saarland state parliament and other state institutions are located was named after Franz-Josef Röder. It runs almost parallel to the city motorway and the Saar.

literature

  • Julian Bernstein: The Silent Cartel is learning to speak. In: Saarbrücker Hefte. 110/111, 2014, p. 5 f.
  • Julian Bernstein: Morally in order. The historian Heinrich Küppers plays down the Nazi past of the "eternal" Prime Minister Franz Josef Röder in a biography. In: Saarbrücker Hefte. 113/11, 2016, pp. 36–42.
  • Rainer Hudemann :  Röder, Franz-Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 708 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans-Christian Herrmann: Franz Josef Röder. The Saarland and its history. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2017, ISBN 978-3-86110-639-5 .
  • Heinrich Küppers: Franz Josef Röder (1909–1979), master builder of the federal state of Saarland. St. Ingbert 2015.
  • Erich later: The father of the country, Franz-Josef Röder's Nazi past. In: Saarbrücker Hefte. 110/111, 2014, pp. 7-14.
  • Erich Voltmer: Franz Josef Röder, A life for the Saar. Queißer Verlagsgesellschaft, Dillingen 1979, ISBN 3-921815-10-X .
  • Peter Wettmann-Jungblut: In the shadow of history, facts and reflections on Franz Josef Röder's past before 1945. In: Saar stories. 4, 2013, ed. from the Historical Association for the Saar Region e. V. and the regional association of the historical-cultural associations of Saarland eV, p. 4-14.
  • Peter Wettmann-Jungblut: Lies and other truths, comments on the "Röder debate" and the "critical" Saarland public. In: Saar stories. 2, 2017, issue 47, ed. from the Historical Association for the Saar Region e. V. and the regional association of historical-cultural associations of Saarland eV, p. 4–16.

Web links

Commons : Franz-Josef Röder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Marx, Wolfgang Tischner: Franz Josef Röder. Biography at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .
  2. ↑ Erich later : The word of the Führer is our order: Heinrich Schneider a German patriot. (PDF, 18 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Saarbrücker Hefte , No. 89 (PFAU Verlag). 2003, archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / peter-imandt.de
  3. ↑ Röder, Franz Josef, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Quack to Rzeznik] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1020 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 328 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch: List 1: Alphabetical list of members of the Saarland state parliament with proven NSDAP membership. (PDF; 2.15 MB) In: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. The Nazi past of representatives from Saarland. The left. Parliamentary group in the Saarland State Parliament, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 19 , accessed on January 25, 2016 .
  5. ^ Report by the ARD magazine Panorama; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHns-Ou8_c , accessed on November 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Röder, Franz-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament, Member of the Bundestag, Minister-President of Saarland (1959–1979)
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Merzig
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1979
Place of death Saarbrücken