Franz Weiß (politician, 1887)
Franz Weiß (born December 23, 1887 in Ried ; † October 2, 1974 in Weingarten ) was a German agricultural scientist and politician ( CDU ).
Life and work
Franz Weiß was born the son of a farmer. After attending school, he began studying agricultural sciences at the universities in Halle , Hohenheim and Gießen , which he completed with a doctorate. He was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Carolingia Hohenheim and KDStV Aenania Munich .
White initially worked as an agriculture teacher in Stromberg . In 1913 he switched to the Hohenheim State Plant Breeding Institute as a lecturer, had been head of the plant breeding department at the Chamber of Agriculture in Stuttgart from 1920 and was most recently appointed to the Chief Agriculture Council . After the National Socialists came to power, he lost his job, then joined the Reichsnährstand as a civil servant in 1934 and was managing director of the Württemberg grain and potato industry association.
politics
Before 1933, Weiß belonged to the Center Party . After the Second World War he was one of the initiators of the founding of the CDU in Württemberg-Hohenzollern , whose founding chairman he became in January 1946. At the first state party conference in Sigmaringen on March 23, 1946 , he was confirmed in this office, which he held until September 1946.
In 1945, Weiß was appointed Country Director for Food and Agriculture by the French military government. In 1946 he was promoted to Ministerialdirigenten, was a member of the State Secretariat led by Carlo Schmid from December 9, 1946 to July 8, 1947 and then served as Minister of Agriculture in the government of the State of Württemberg led by President Lorenz Bock until April 25, 1952- Hohenzollern. He belonged to the German Bundestag in its first legislative period (1949–1953). He represented the constituency of Balingen in parliament.
Honors
- 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 932.
- Franz Weiß , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 22/1953 from May 18, 1953, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Holdings N 1/1 of the Sigmaringen State Archives (estate of Franz Weiß)
See also
North Württemberg : Josef Andre (1946–1948) | Wilhelm Simpfendörfer (1948–1958) | Klaus Scheufelen (1958–1971)
North Baden : Fridolin Heurich (1945–1951) | Franz Gurk (1951–1968) | Otto Dullenkopf (1968–1970) | Gerhard Zeitel (1970–1971)
South Baden : Leo Wohleb (1946–1947) | Anton Dichtel (1948–1966) | Hans Filbinger (1966–1971)
Württemberg-Hohenzollern : Franz Weiß (1946–1948) | Gebhard Müller (1948–1955) | Eduard Adorno (1956–1971)
Baden-Württemberg : Hans Filbinger (1971–1979) | Lothar Späth (1979–1991) | Erwin Teufel (1991–2005) | Günther Oettinger (2005–2009) | Stefan Mappus (2009–2011) | Thomas Strobl (since 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | reed |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd October 1974 |
| Place of death | Vineyard |