Franz Jungwirth

Franz Jungwirth (born November 9, 1938 in Klösterle near Winterberg , Bohemian Forest ) is a German civil servant and local politician of the CSU in Freising . From 2000 to 2008 he was district council president of Upper Bavaria .

Life

Jungwirth was born on November 9, 1938 in the Bohemian Forest in Czechoslovakia and spent his childhood in Klösterle ( Klášterec ) near Winterberg . After the end of the Second World War he came to Bavaria from the Sudetenland and graduated from high school in 1958. He then studied economics . After working for the industrial plant operating company (IABG) in Ottobrunn, Jungwirth went to the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs at the end of the 1960s and shortly afterwards switched to the newly founded Bavarian State Ministry for Regional Development and Environmental Issues . He worked there for 32 years, u. a. as deputy head of the central department and later as senior ministerial advisor for the IT sector. Franz Jungwirth has lived in Freising with his wife Renate since 1970. In 1978 Jungwirth was elected to the Freising District Assembly for the CSU and in 1982 to the District Assembly of Upper Bavaria. In 2000 he became the district council president of the Upper Bavaria district , as his predecessor Erwin Filser had to resign because of his involvement in the so-called pleasure travel affair. Jungwirth was district council president until 2008. Jungwirth remained district councilor until 2013.

Honors

Jungwirth has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, the Municipal Merit Medal , the District Day Medal in Gold and the Freising City Medal.

Web links

• Interview with contemporary witnesses, Franz Jungwirth , recorded on May 18, 2017 in Freising.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} married for 50 years and always on the move , Münchner Merkur from March 17, 2017.
2. ^ Travel affair. Pure pleasure. Focus magazine from May 22, 2000.