Franz Gehweiler

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Franz Gehweiler (born April 12, 1917 in Öhringen ; † December 13, 1979 there ) was a German mayor and politician ( CDU ).

Life

After graduating from high school in Heilbronn in 1936 , he served as an officer from 1938 to 1945 . During the Second World War he was seriously wounded several times at the front. He received high war awards.

After the war he worked as a lumberjack for a while. From November 1945, initially deployed by the American occupation forces, he was mayor of the city of Waldenburg (Württemberg) until March 1978 . During his term of office, the reconstruction of the city, which was badly destroyed in the last days of the war, and the settlement of the Albert Schweitzer Children's Village in Waldenburg , whose chairman was Gehweiler. He also initiated the town twinning with Sierck-les-Bains . Before the community reform , Gehweiler was also mayor of the neighboring communities of Obersteinbach and Kesselfeld, which were still independent at the time . From 1954 he was a member of the district council for a total of 25 years, first in the district of Öhringen , then in the Hohenlohe district .

From 1973 until his death Gehweiler was district chairman of the CDU in the Hohenlohe district. From May 5, 1976 until his death, he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg with a direct mandate in the Hohenlohe state electoral district . After his death, Karl Östreicher moved up to the state parliament.

Gehweiler was a Roman Catholic denomination , married and had four children. For 18 years he was chairman of the Kochergaus in the Swabian Singers' Association. After his death, his was testamentary request, these managed by the city Waldenburg Franz-Gehweiler Foundation established the annual pay three quarters of the interest income of its capital as a grant for music education to large families.

Awards

Gehweiler received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1954 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1977. At the end of his tenure as Mayor of Waldenburg, he became the first holder of the Golden Citizen Medal of the city of Waldenburg in 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhard Schreiner: Names and dates from six decades of party work. The chairmen and managing directors of the CDU state, district and district associations since 1945 (new states from 1990). Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Scientific Services, Archive for Christian Democratic Politics, Sankt Augustin 2012, p. 32 ( PDF ; 1007 kB)
  2. ↑ Franz Gehweiler Foundation ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at waldenburg-hohenlohe.de (accessed on December 23, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.waldenburg-hohenlohe.de

literature

  • State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. 7th legislative term 1976–1980 . 3rd edition, as of August 1979. Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1979, ISBN 3-87576-074-3 , p. 37
  • Josef Weik: The members of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2003. 7th edition. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-923476-03-5 , p. 48
  • Mayor Franz Gehweiler - a “passionate lawyer for his homeland” (1917–1979) . In: Karlheinz Engler: Waldenburg. Image of a town in Hohenlohe. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-862-3 , pp. 514-515

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personal data
SURNAME Gehweiler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mayor and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1979
Place of death Öhringen