Georg book
Georg Buch (born September 24, 1903 in Wiesbaden ; † August 5, 1995 there ) was a politician of the SPD . Buch belonged to the constitutional state assembly in Hesse , was a member and later president of the Hessian state parliament and from 1960 to 1968 mayor of Wiesbaden.
biography
education
Buch attended elementary school from 1909 to 1917 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Carl Ritter printer in Wiesbaden from 1917 to 1921 . As early as 1919 he was a union member of the youth organization of the Association of German Book Printers . After his apprenticeship, interrupted by wandering, he worked as a printer's assistant and typesetter, among others at the Wiesbaden companies Ritter and Friedmann.
In 1929 and 1930 he attended the Academy of Labor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . He then worked briefly in 1931 at the Zeidler printing company in Wiesbaden-Biebrich .
politics
In 1920 he joined the Workers' Youth Association and in 1921 the SPD. In 1928 he became the head of propaganda for the Wiesbaden sub-district of the SPD.
In 1933 Georg Buch became a city councilor and chairman of the SPD in Wiesbaden. From September 14 to September 28, 1933, he was in protective custody . He then earned his living as a sales representative: first for coffee, then for household items, and between 1938 and 1940 as a sales representative for Holsteiner Lebensmittelwerke. From 1940 to 1941 he was an impregnator (foreman) at the Karl Büger company in Wiesbaden and thus, among other things, construction manager in the area of the Luftgau in western France in La Rochelle .
Between 1941 and 1945 he was due to preparation for high treason in various prisons in investigation and criminal detention and was in the concentration camps Hinzert concentration camp and Sachsenhausen interned.
From 1945 to 1946, Buch was party secretary (managing director) of the SPD Wiesbaden. From 1946 he was a city councilor and city councilor (department for nutrition and economy) in Wiesbaden and chairman of the SPD city council group. From 1954 he was mayor and from 1960 to 1968 lord mayor of Wiesbaden.
In 1946 he was also a founding partner of the Frankfurter Union printing company. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Sachsenhausen Committee for the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1946 he was a co-founder of the Hessian regional association of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) based in Giessen.
In 1946 he was a member of the state assembly advising the constitution (Greater Hesse) . Buch was a member of the Hessian Landtag from 1946 to 1950 and from 1954 to 1974. From 1959 to 1960 he held the office of chairman and from 1960 to 1966 that of vice chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1966 to 1974 he was President of the Hessian State Parliament.
From 1947 to 1954 he was chairman of the local association or the sub-district of the SPD Wiesbaden. From 1954 to 1962 he was deputy chairman of the SPD district of Hessen-Süd.
Between 1971 and 1980 he held the office of chairman of the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany (Landeskuratorium Hessen).
Buch found his final resting place next to his wife Anna in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden.
Honors
- In 1964 he received the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria .
- He was made an honorary citizen of Wiesbaden in 1968.
- The Wilhelm Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse was also awarded to him in 1968.
- In 1973 he was awarded the Great Silver Decoration on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria .
- He was awarded the Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1973.
- He received the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1978.
- The Georg-Buch-Haus youth center in Wiesbaden's Wellritzstrasse is named after him.
literature
- Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 387.
- Erik Emig: Georg book. Life and work of a social democrat. Courir Verlag, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-89-052000-6 .
- Axel Ulrich (Red.): Georg Buch 1903-1995. For the 100th birthday. Ed .: Magistrate of the State Capital Wiesbaden - City Archives. Wiesbaden 2003.
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 224 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 92.
Web links
- Georg Buch in the city dictionary of the Wiesbaden city archive
- Book, Georg. Hessian biography. (As of March 1, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 219, November 21, 1978.
Rudolf Freidhof (1946–1947) | Albert Wagner (1947–1949) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1949–1953) | Heinrich Schneider (1953–1955) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1955–1958) | Georg Buch (1958–1960) | Willi Zinnkann (1960–1961) | Rudi Arndt (1961–1964) | Johannes Strelitz (1964–1967) | Erwin Lang (1967–1969) | Werner Best (1969–1970) | Heribert Reitz (1970–1972) | Hans Krollmann (1972–1973) | Willi Görlach (1973–1974) | Armin Clauss (1974-1976) | Karl Schneider (1976–1980) | Horst Winterstein (1980–1984) | Ernst Welteke (1984–1987) | Hans Krollmann (1987–1988) | Ernst Welteke (1988–1991) | Lothar Klemm (1991–1994) | Armin Clauss (1994-2001) | Gerhard Bökel (2001–2003) | Jürgen Walter (2003–2007) | Andrea Ypsilanti (2007-2009) | Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (2009–2019) | Nancy Faeser (since 2019)
Heinrich Fischer (1849–1868) | Wilhelm Lanz (1868–1882) | Christian Schlichter (1882–1883) | Carl Bernhard von Ibell (1883–1913) | Karl Glässing (1913–1919) | Fritz Travers (1919–1929) | Georg Krücke (1930–1933) | Alfred Schulte (1933–1937) | Erich Mix (1937–1945) | Georg Krücke (1945–1946) | Hans Heinrich Redlhammer (1946–1953) | Erich Mix (1954–1960) | Georg Buch (1960–1968) | Rudi Schmitt (1968–1980) | Georg-Berndt Oschatz (1980–1982) | Hans-Joachim Jentsch (1982–1985) | Achim Exner (1985-1997) | Hildebrand Diehl (1997-2007) | Helmut Müller (2007–2013) | Sven Gerich (2013–2019) | Gert-Uwe Mende (since July 2, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Book, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 1995 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |