Franz Bögler

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Franz Bögler (born December 4, 1902 in Speyer ; † July 4, 1976 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After finishing secondary school, Bögler completed an administrative apprenticeship in Metz and was then employed by the Speyer city council until 1933. In 1933 he was taken into “ protective custody ” by the National Socialists and then lived in other European countries. He was imprisoned from 1940 to 1943 until he managed to escape to Switzerland. In 1946 he returned to the Palatinate and in the 1950s became chairman of the supervisory board of the Pfalzwerke in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

politics

Bögler joined the SPD in 1921 and was elected to the Speyer city ​​council in 1927 , where he became chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1929 he became district secretary of the Palatinate SPD. Until 1933 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament . During his emigration he was border secretary for Sopade and later for Democratic Germany in Switzerland . In 1946 he was elected chairman of the SPD Palatinate, which he led until 1962. From 1946 to 1948 he was a city councilor in Speyer. In 1947 he was appointed president of the administrative district of the Palatinate . He held this position until he was put on hold in 1949.

Bögler was a member and vice-president of the advisory state assembly of Rhineland-Palatinate and then belonged to the first four state parliaments of Rhineland-Palatinate until 1963 . In 1947 and 1951–1961 he was Vice President of the State Parliament. In addition, from 1950 he was the first chairman of the Palatinate District Assembly . The state parliament elected him a member of the federal assemblies in 1949, 1954 and 1959.

In 1953 his immunity was lifted because the public prosecutor's office was investigating Bögler. He was accused of having promised two FDP members a job at the Pfalzwerke so that they would vote for him in the election for the district chairman. The investigation into active and passive electoral bribery has been discontinued.

In the 1960 election he was elected by two members of the German Reich Party , whereupon the CDU and FDP expressed their distrust in the state parliament. Bögler agreed to the compromise of the SPD federal executive committee to step down as vice-president of the state parliament and to remain chairman of the district parliament. The parliamentary groups of the CDU and FDP nevertheless passed a law that would have restricted Bögler to "exclusively parliamentary functions". This “Lex Bögler” was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1962, Bögler and Walter Müller participated in a meeting to found an independent SPD in the Palatinate. He then distanced himself from it, but was - like Müller - excluded from the SPD for behavior that was harmful to the party.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 76-77.
  • Markus Schäfer: Data handbook on the history of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate 1947-2003 . Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7758-1405-3 .
  • The end of a career . In: Die Zeit , No. 21/1963.

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personal data
SURNAME Bögler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1976
Place of death Speyer