Franz Weig

Franz Weig (born August 23, 1927 in Albersrieth , today Waldthurn , † June 28, 1992 ) was a German farmer and politician ( CSU ).

After he graduated from high school in Weiden in 1947 , which he had to interrupt due to two years of military service in which he was wounded, Weig attended the agricultural school and a semester at the agricultural college in Weihenstephan . Due to the early death of his father, he took over his farm. His brothers were in Russia at the time. After the end of the Second World War he was involved in the development of the Catholic rural youth , the Catholic rural people movement and the CSU, where in 1964 he became the first chairman of the working group on agriculture in the Upper Palatinate . In 1953 he became a sworn expert for the Bavarian Insurance Chamber , and later he was a member of the board of directors of the Weiden dairy cooperative and the boards of the Raiffeisenbank Waldthurn and the Vohenstrauss health insurance fund . In 1956 he was elected to the council of the municipality of Lennesrieth , in 1960 he was also the first mayor there, and also moved into the district council. In 1966 he was elected to the district committee and the Bavarian state parliament , to which he was a member for four years. In 1970 he was elected the last district administrator in the Vohenstrauß district, which was dissolved in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab during the 1972 district reform .

Franz Weig was married to Elfriede Weig, née Stüker. They ran the farm together and had eight children, one of whom died in 1994 of an insidious disease. Franz Weig suffered a heart attack on the way to his great-nephew's primary ceremony in Eslarn , which he later succumbed to.

Web links

• Franz Weig in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With creativity and humor Article on the 80th birthday of Elfriede Weig from June 4, 2010