Franz Gog
Franz Xaver Gog (* 24. April 1907 in Öpfingen ; † 10. June 1980 in Sigmaringen ) was a German lawyer and politician of the CDU .
education and profession
After graduating from the High School Ehingen Gog studied from 1927 to 1931 in Munich , Kiel and Tübingen jurisprudence , put 1932 first and 1935 the second legal state examination. From 1940 he was a Judge at District Court Hechingen , where he in 1952 after several years as Oberamts judge was appointed in Sigmaringen (from 1945) to Landgerichtsdirektor. From 1973 until his death, Gog also worked as a judge at the State Court of Justice for the state of Baden-Württemberg . Gog was used during the Second World War in the French campaign and the Russian campaign in the southern section, later in Schleswig-Holstein, where he was captured by the British.
In 1940 he married the doctor Magdalena Strobel in Haigerloch, with whom he had three children. After the death of his first wife in 1966, he married Elisabeth Walter in Beuron in 1974.
Political activity
In 1945 Gog was one of the founding members of the Sigmaringen CDU and was elected to the district council in 1946. In 1947 he was sent to the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern as a representative of Hohenzollern . From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the state parliament for Württemberg-Hohenzollern and from 1948 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 1950 he was a member of the main committee of the working group founded in Karlsruhe for the Baden-Württemberg Association . In 1952 he was elected to the first state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , which also acted as the constituent assembly for Baden-Württemberg and was chairman of the constitutional committee from July 9, 1952. Gog was a member of the state parliament until 1972. From 1964 to 1968 he was its third vice-president.
From 1950 to 1972 Gog was chairman of the municipal council at the regional association of the Hohenzollern Lands in Sigmaringen.
Awards and honorary positions
In 1953, Gog received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , 14 years later the star for the Great Cross of Merit. In 1956, on the occasion of Konrad Adenauer's 80th birthday, the CDU awarded him the CDU Loyalty Medal. He was an honorary member of the State Association of Fire Brigades Württemberg-Hohenzollern. He received further awards from the social association VdK Germany , the German Folk Music Association, the German Alpine Association and the Württemberg Savings Banks and Giro Association.
Gog was a member of the Broadcasting Council of Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, the Presidential Committee of the General Association of the Insurance Industry, the Württemberg Savings Banks and Giro Association and the Board of Directors of the Württemberg Giro headquarters and the Württemberg building society.
literature
- Bruno Effinger: Historical personalities. In: District of Sigmaringen (Hrsg.): The district of Sigmaringen - history and shape. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1981, pp. 285f. ISBN 3-7995-1066-4 .
- Frank Raberg : Franz Gog. A "Hohenzollern" parliamentarian between Bebenhausen and Stuttgart 1946-1953. A contribution to his biography . In: Journal for Hohenzollern History . 32nd year 1996, pp. 229-300.
Web links
- Denazification file Franz Gog as a digital reproduction in the online offer of the State Archives Sigmaringen
- Gog, Franz Xaver. Baden-Württemberg State Archives, accessed on August 26, 2013 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gog, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gog, Franz Xaver (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Öpfingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1980 |
| Place of death | Sigmaringen |