Franz Josef Nuißl

Franz Josef Nuißl (born September 9, 1877 in Furth im Wald , † August 28, 1955 in Neu-Ulm ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Memorial for Franz Josef Nuißl in the Neu-Ulm main cemetery

Born as the son of a painter's assistant, Nuißl studied law in Munich and Erlangen after attending the humanistic grammar schools in Landshut and Regensburg . During his studies he became a member of the Danubia Munich fraternity in 1898 . After his exams he became a government assessor in the government of Upper Bavaria in 1905/06 and was a legal advisor in Bamberg from 1906 to 1919 .

From 1919 to 1945 he was first mayor of Neu-Ulm and was the successor to Hofrat Josef Kollmann . From 1927 the mayor was promoted to lord mayor , in 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the NS-Fliegerkorps . He was the head of the local group of the National Socialist Welfare Association and from 1933 to 1936 the head of the district office for local politics . After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the American military government interned Nuißl for two years, but he was rehabilitated in a later court proceedings . In 1952 he became an honorary citizen of Neu-Ulm.

Franz Josef Nuißl died on August 28, 1955 a few days before he was 78 years old in Neu-Ulm and found his final resting place in the main cemetery there, where a memorial of the city of Neu-Ulm commemorates him.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of Neu-Ulm
• Cenotaph of the city of Neu-Ulm in the Neu-Ulm main cemetery
• Nuißl-Heim (name of the homeless shelter in the city of Neu-Ulm)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 231.