Franz Sackmann

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Franz Sackmann (born December 17, 1920 in Kaiserslautern , † October 14, 2011 in Roding ) was a German politician . He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament , District Administrator of the Roding District and State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. He was also a founding member of the CSU .

Life

Franz Sackmann was born as the son of the chess problem composer of the same name in Kaiserslautern, where he grew up before moving to Munich with his family in 1933 . From 1937 he was in the illegal work of the Catholic youth banned by the Nazis and later in the Bund New Germany (ND)active. He passed his Abitur in Munich in 1939. During the Second World War he was wounded several times as a soldier (last lieutenant in the reserve). After his release from Soviet captivity, he returned to Munich and founded one of the first CSU local associations there in 1945. In 1950 he became executive chairman of the Munich CSU. Shortly thereafter, Sackmann moved into the CSU party executive. In 1954 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament. He was a member of this for 24 years for the Cham district .

In 1956 Sackmann was elected district administrator in Roding. Ten years later, Alfons Goppel appointed him to the Bavarian cabinet as State Secretary for Economic Affairs. He held this post until 1978 when he retired from politics. From 1969 to 1974 Sackmann was President of TSV 1860 Munich . He headed the Bavarian Working Group for Democratic Circles from 1960 until, after 39 years, he handed over its leadership to his son, Landtag member Markus Sackmann , who later succeeded him as State Secretary for Economic Affairs. In this “non-partisan and interdenominational” working group, he stated that he prevented the lecture of a Jewish university professor for purely religious and non-racial reasons.

Sackmann lived in Roding near Cham in the Upper Palatinate until his death.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "All power for Franz Sackmann" . Time online. October 27, 1961. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Sackmann, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2011
Place of death Roding