Franz Stumpf (politician, 1950)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Stumpf (born July 31, 1950 in Forchheim ; † April 9, 2019 there ) was a German politician of the CSU / WUO and from 1990 to 2016 Lord Mayor of the city of Forchheim.

Political career

In 1990, the CSU member Franz Stumpf was elected Lord Mayor for the first time for the WUO (Voters' Initiative Independent Mayors). He won the runoff against the official CSU candidate Eduard Nöth . In 2002 he was elected to the district assembly for the first time and in 2003 to the Upper Franconian district assembly. He was chairman of the Bavarian Hospital Society , the BRK district association Forchheim and VfB Forchheim , board member of Medical Valley EMN e. V. , as well as member or chairman of several supervisory boards and special-purpose associations (EGF, GWS, HdWW, Leithenberg Group, Sparkasse Forchheim , Stadtwerke Forchheim, Synagoge Ermreuth , WIR Bamberg-Forchheim).

In connection with the player financing of handball players at VfB Forchheim by the AUB , the public prosecutor brought charges against Stumpf in mid-July 2009 for tax evasion and social security fraud . The Nuremberg Regional Court opened the process on October 20, 2011. Because the Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court saw at most a minor debt for tax evasion and embezzlement of wages, the proceedings were discontinued in November 2011 in return for a payment of 20,000 euros.

On December 17, 2015, Forchheim City Council approved its request to resign from the office of Lord Mayor at the end of March 31, 2016 for health reasons. In the first ballot on March 6, 2016, none of the four applicants achieved an absolute majority; in the runoff election on March 20, 2016, Uwe Kirschstein (SPD) was elected Stumpf's successor with 52.2 percent.

Franz Stumpf was chairman of the Bavarian Hospital Society (BKG) from 1999 to 2018, the association of Bavarian hospital owners with approx. 360 hospitals in Bavaria. With his extraordinary human integrity, professional competence and clear judgment, he was an excellent representative of the Bavarian hospitals. In his passionate, but always balanced and cooperative manner, he campaigned for the interests of hospitals, their employees and patients and thus significantly shaped the development of hospital care in Bavaria. I.a. for this he was awarded the Bavarian State Medal for Services to Health and Care by the Bavarian Health Minister Melanie Huml in December 2018 on the sidelines of the last BKG general meeting he chaired .

Private life

Stumpf studied law in Erlangen and was legal advisor for the city of Forchheim before his time as mayor. Blunt was married and had three children. He had been a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. since 1970. Gothia Erlangen.

On April 9, 2019, Stumpf succumbed to a longstanding cancer.

Web links

  • Franz Stumpf. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Forchheim. Formerly in the original;
  • Franz Stumpf. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the CSU district association Forchheim. Formerly in the original;

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Indictment against Forchheim city hall boss. (No longer available online.) In: sueddeutsche.de . Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 13, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sueddeutsche.de
  2. ↑ Allegation of tax evasion - Lord Mayor denies allegations. In: BR-Online . October 20, 2011, archived from the original on October 22, 2011 ; accessed on April 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ Proceedings against Forchheim's mayor stopped. In: nordbayern.de . November 14, 2011, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Obituary . Bavarian Hospital Society V .. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  5. ^ The members of the board of directors of the BKG . Bayerische Krankenhausgesellschaft eV Accessed April 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ On October 1, 2018, Minister of State Melanie Huml awarded the State Medal for Services to Health and Care in Hirschaid to nine committed citizens . Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Beke Maisch: Forchheim's former Mayor Franz Stumpf has died. In: nordbayern.de. April 9, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stump, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU)
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Forchheim
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2019
Place of death Forchheim