Franz Singer (politician)

Franz Maria Singer (born September 8, 1898 in Seligenstadt , † July 22, 1953 in Saarbrücken ) was a German journalist and politician ( center , later CVP ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school and the Progymnasium in Seligenstadt as well as graduating from high school in Bensheim in 1917 , Singer took part in the First World War as a soldier in 1917/18 . He began in 1919 to study journalism, history, economics, finance, business law and statistics at the Universities of Frankfurt , Freiburg , Halle and Leipzig , which he in 1922 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. finished. From 1923 to 1925 he worked as a trade journalist at Messner & Co in Leipzig and from 1925 to 1935 as an editor for the Saarzeitung (since 1927: Saarbrücker Landeszeitung ) in Saarlouis .

Singer was banned from working by the National Socialists in 1935. He then worked at Industrie-Versicherungs-GmbH and the insurance company Iduna-Germania in Saarbrücken. From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He was most recently captured by the United States, from which he was released in July 1945. From August 1945 to September 1946 he was the administrative director of the city of Saarbrücken.

politics

Singer had joined the Center Party during the Weimar Republic , of which he was a member until 1935. At the same time he headed the regional association of the Windthorstbund in the Saar area . From 1927 to 1935 he was a city ​​councilor for the city of Saarbrücken.

After 1945 Singer took part in the founding of the CVP. He was elected to the Saarbrücken city council in 1946 and was honorary mayor of the city from 1946 to 1949 . From 1947 until his death on July 22, 1953, he was a member of the Saarland state parliament and chairman of the CVP parliamentary group there in 1951/52. Of 20 December 1947 to 14 April 1951, he served as Minister of Economics, Transport, Food and Agriculture and of 23 December 1952 until his death as Minister of Culture, Education and Popular Education in the Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann led governments of Saarland . In addition, he has been Saarland's delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 1950 , second honorary alderman of the city of Saarbrücken since 1951 and Saarland's delegate to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) since 1952 .

See also

• Cabinet Hoffmann I
• Cabinet Hoffmann III

literature

• Hanns Klein: Short biographies of the mayors of (old) Saarbrücken, St. Johanns, Malstatt-Burbachs and the city of Saarbrücken . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, XIX, Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 510-538. To Singer p. 531f.
• Anna Christine Storbeck: The governments of the federal and state governments since 1945 , p. 437, Olzog, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-789-27002-4

Web links

• Alexa Himbert-Schäfer: Singer Franz Maria . In: Saarland biographies