Friedemann Keßler

This article deals with the politician Friedemann Keßler. For other people see Friedemann Kessler .

Friedemann Keßler (born November 1, 1928 in Siegen , † July 9, 1985 in Trier ) was a German local politician and Lord Mayor of Siegen .

Life and work

Friedemann Keßler attended the Gymnasium am Löhrtor in Siegen, where he passed his Abitur after the Second World War and his return from captivity . As a soldier in the Wehrmacht , he was captured by the US on the French Western Front in 1944 .

Keßler studied law in Marburg , where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia in 1950 . In 1956 he headed the Kösener Seniors Convent Association and was chairman of the Kösener Congress . After passing the first and second state examinations in law, Keßler joined a law firm in the Siegen district of Geisweid in 1958 , which he later ran independently.

Friedemann Keßler died on July 9, 1985 as a result of a serious illness.

politics

Keßler was chairman of the CDU city association in Siegen from 1961 and chairman of the district from 1968 to 1981, first of the CDU district association of Siegen, and from 1974 of the district association of Siegen-Wittgenstein. From 1977 to 1981 Keßler was also a member of the presidium and board of the CDU regional association in North Rhine-Westphalia.

With his resignation as CDU district chairman, Keßler was elected honorary chairman of the CDU Siegen-Wittgenstein in 1981 because of his services to the party; after his early death in 1985, the house of the CDU district association in Siegen was named Friedemann-Keßler House in recognition of his services .

Keßler was first elected to the city parliament in Siegen in the local elections in 1961. He was a member of the Siegen city council until his death in 1985. After the municipal reorganization, Keßler was elected on May 21, 1975 for the municipal electoral period until October 17, 1979 with a counting community of CDU and FDP in the city council as the last (honorary) mayor of the city of Siegen, which is larger around the incorporated cities of Eiserfeld and Hüttental.

Although the official title of Lord Mayor with the communal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia could no longer be given to large cities belonging to the district such as the city of Siegen and was only available to the large district-free cities of the state, Keßler, as the last chairman of the council of Siegen, was still able to use this title because to At the time of his election the city of Siegen still had a senior city director, Kurt Seibt, as head of administration, whose term of office only ended after the election of the council chair on June 30, 1975.

Awards

In November 1979 Keßler received the seal of honor from the city of Siegen for his commitment to local politics; In 1980 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Company profile of Billich & Sprenger, notaries and lawyers ( memento of the original from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Report of the Westfälische Rundschau October 8, 2009
3. ↑ Report on the website of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district on the new building of the district building, written by the district's former press spokesman
4. ↑ Article Der Spiegel from January 19, 1976
5. ↑ Sauerlandkurier September 27, 2009, paragraph "Exciting experiences"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Kösener corps lists . 98, 1960, 418

literature

• Documentation of the archive of the city of Siegen.
• Siegener newspaper. May 22, 1975.
• Hans-Georg Schiemer: Biographies of leading personalities of the Union in Siegerland and Wittgenstein 1946–1996. In: Hans-Georg Schiemer, CDU district association (Hrsg.): 50 years of the CDU in Siegerland and Wittgenstein. Wins 1996.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Althaus	Mayor of Siegen 1975–1979	Hans Reinhardt