Franz-Michael Elsen

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Franz-Michael Elsen (born July 11, 1906 in Munich ; † February 25, 1980 there ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

Life and work

Elsen, who was of Roman Catholic faith, first attended the agricultural school in Haßfurt after graduating from secondary school . After passing a gifted test, he studied agriculture, veterinary medicine and economics at the universities in Munich and Erlangen . Since 1926 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich. After taking his diploma, he worked for the Bayerische Staatsbank from 1934. In 1937 he moved to the Fürstlich Löwenstein-Rosenbergsche Verwaltung, where he worked as an estate manager. From 1943 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After the end of the war, he returned to the service of the Bayerische Staatsbank, where he was director from 1959 until he retired in 1971.

politics

Before 1933 Elsen was involved in the youth organization of the BVP . In the last weeks of the war he was active in the Bavarian freedom campaign. After the war he joined the CSU and was its state treasurer from 1949 to 1952.

As successor to Johannes Semler , Elsen was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone from February 26, 1948 to 1949 . There he was chairman of the Ruhr coal commission. He was also a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as the first German Federal President in 1949 . From 1950 to 1966 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . There he was from 1950 to 1954 chairman of the committee of inquiry for the examination of credit cases and from 1955 to 1958 chairman of the commission for the examination of national guarantees.

From December 18, 1957 to 1962, Elsen was a non-professional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court . From 1958 to 1966 he was a member of the German Atomic Energy Commission .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Parliament 3rd electoral period 116th session (PDF) Bavarian State Parliament. December 18, 1957. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  2. Bavarian State Parliament 3rd legislative period, supplement 3031 (PDF) Bavarian State Parliament. December 18, 1957. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  3. To the President of the National Council Barbara Prammer (PDF) Austrian Parliament. April 23, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Technical University of Munich. The history of a science company. Volume 2, Metropol, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938690-34-5 , p. 991.