Franz Michel

Franz Michel (born May 27, 1908 in Landsberg am Lech ; † September 25, 1989 in Munich ) was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the constituency of Landsberg am Lech, Fürstenfeldbruck-West , from 1946 to 1958 .

Life

Franz Michel was a trained businessman , ran a hardware wholesaler and was deployed in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 . In 1945 he was a founding member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria in the Landsberg am Lech district , where he was district chairman from 1946 to 1958. From 1949 to 1950 he was a member of the CSU state executive. In 1951 the Bavarian government introduced a draft for a state casino law, which provided for casinos in Bad Reichenhall , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Bad Wiessee and Bad Kissingen with a central casino company, in the Bavarian state parliament . Alois Hundhammer argued that casinos are facilities for money laundering , while Joseph Baumgartner criticized the central legal form . Approval in the Maximilianeum was denied to the bill . Before the vote, Michel had received a check for 50,000 German marks from the concession candidates .

1956 Michel was from the CSU excluded and under the Bavarian casino affair in 1959 to two years in prison for perjury sentenced.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Fait, Alf Mintzel: The CSU 1945–1948: Protocols and materials on the early history of the Christian Social Union . Volume I, p. 1904
2. ↑ Legacies. ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hanns Seidel Foundation 
3. ↑ Acted like the Sicilian Mafia . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1988 ( online ).
4. ↑ Casinos: Perjury Roulette . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1959 ( online ).