Franz Heubl

Franz Heubl 1989 with Friedrich Zimmermann

Franz Heubl (center) with Karl Carstens, 1974

Franz Heubl (* 19th March 1924 in Munich , † 21st December 2001 ) was a German jurist and CSU - politicians . He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1953 to 1990 and President of the State Parliament from 1978 to 1990.

Life

In 1943 Heubl, the son of a master locksmith and Christian trade unionist, graduated from high school. He then became the pioneers in the army (Wehrmacht) confiscated. After the end of the war, he began studying law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and became a member of the KBStV Rhaetia Munich . He passed the First State Examination in 1947 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. At the age of just 24 he was appointed secretary of the Constitutional Convention on Herrenchiemsee , who carried out important preparatory work for the later Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany . After taking the Second State Examination in 1950, he was a civil servant in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture from 1950 to 1960 , most recently with the rank of government director .

Political career

Franz Heubl 1967 in conversation with Franz Beckenbauer

Heubl was one of the founding members of the CSU. He was a founding member of the CSU district association in Munich and one of the deputy state chairmen of the CSU. From 1952 to 1955 he was a city councilor in his hometown of Munich. In 1953 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament, in which he represented the constituency of Lindau from 1958 . From December 1958 to December 1962 he was chairman of the CSU parliamentary group and from 1958 to 1960 also chairman of the cultural policy committee. As State Secretary in the Bavarian State Chancellery, he worked as its head from 1960 to 1962. From 1962 to 1978 he was Bavarian State Minister for Federal Affairs (Cabinets Goppel I , II , III and IV ) and authorized representative of the Free State of Bavaria at the federal level and a member of the Federal Council . He headed this ministry until Alfons Goppel was replaced by Franz Josef Strauss. He ended his political career as President of the Bavarian State Parliament from October 30, 1978 to October 23, 1990.

What is remarkable about Heubl's long political career is that he was able to continue it successfully for so long despite the deep dislike that Franz Josef Strauss harbored for him. Strauss had a dossier put together with allegations against Heubl; Der Spiegel reported on its content in mid-1976.

A state parliament committee dealt with the dossier. Heubl went to court against Strauss; Strauss had to give in in the process of unification.

In 1990, Heubl no longer ran for the state elections in October 1990 for reasons of age . Prime Minister Max Streibl appointed Heubl as Special Representative for the Regions of Europe in October 1990 , a newly created position.

Honors

• 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1960: Large gold medal with the star for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1972: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1977: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1983: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• also: Grand Cross of the Kgl. Greek Order of the Phoenix, Order of St. New Year's Eve (Papal Order), Grand Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Commander of the Legion of Honor

literature

• Hilde Balke: The Presidents of the Bavarian State Parliament: from 1946 to 1994. Ed. Bavarian State Parliament, State Parliament Office, Munich. Bavarian State Parliament, Munich 2001, 311 pp.: Ill.; 19 cm. - ISBN 3-927924-23-7  : free.

Web links

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

• Franz Heubl in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The constitutional development of Bavaria after 1945 .
2. ^ The chairmen of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian State Parliament (PDF) Hanns Seidel Foundation. October 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
3. ^ "Bottomless lazy and capable of anything" From the Heubl dossier of Franz Josef Strauss . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1976, p. 29-31 ( online - 5 July 1976 ).
4. ↑ Wilhelm Schlötterer : Power and abuse . Heyne TB, 6th edition 2010, p. 449.
5. ↑ European integration from historical experience (PDF) Center for European integration research. S. 16. 2012. Accessed January 27, 2017.
6. ↑ Heubl, Dr. Franz . House of Bavarian History. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
7. ↑ Federal Chancellor's answer to the inquiry (PDF) Republic of Austria. April 23, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
8. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
9. ↑ Senior men and women in business 1991 . Hoppenstedt & Co.