Fritz Wurster

Fritz Wurster (born February 12, 1922 in Brötzingen ; † April 9, 2016 ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Wurster attended elementary school and then completed an administration apprenticeship at the employment office. He caught up with the Abitur and then wanted to start studying. In 1942, however, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was most recently taken prisoner, from which he escaped in 1945. After the end of the war, he initially worked as an unskilled worker in agriculture and construction. In 1946 he got a job as a secretary in a jewelry factory in Pforzheim. From 1954 to 1969 he was the managing director of the Pforzheim branch of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Crafts . After his retirement he worked as managing director of the Schiller-Gymnasium and as honorary director of the technical museum of the Pforzheimer jewelry and watch industry .

Wurster joined the CDU in 1946 and became managing director of the CDU district association in Pforzheim in June of the first post-war year. From 1949 he worked as a secretary for the Bundestag member Gottfried Leonhard .

Wurster was a member of the Pforzheim municipal council from 1951 to 1969, where he was temporarily chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. In the state elections in 1960 , 1964 and 1968 he was elected as a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , to which he belonged until 1972. From 1969 to 1987 he was mayor for culture, sport, social affairs and schools in the city of Pforzheim.

Fritz Wurster was married and had three children.

Awards

• 1972: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 42nd edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2003, p. 1570.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Claudius Erb: Mourning for great Pforzheimer: Former mayor Fritz Wurster is dead. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung . April 10, 2016, accessed April 30, 2016 .