Georg Hagen (politician)

Georg Hagen (born September 12, 1887 in Kulmbach , † November 18, 1958 in Munich ) was a German state and local politician ( SPD ).

On September 1, 1906, he began his service in Ebneth near Burgkunstadt as a school administrator of the one-class elementary school and stayed until April 30, 1910. He left Ebneth to teach at a Kulmbach elementary school. In 1919 he was appointed senior teacher at the municipal girls' college (today Caspar-Vischer-Gymnasium ). From 1919 he belonged to the Kulmbach city council, the district council of Upper Franconia (today district council) and the district committee.

Hagen was initially a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from April 1932 to 1933 . After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he lost his seat in Parliament and he was removed from the school system. From 1934 he headed the general agency of an insurance company in Kulmbach. After the end of the Second World War he became mayor in 1945 and later mayor of his hometown Kulmbach. From July 1946 he was a member of the state constituent assembly and was again a member of the state parliament from 1946 to 1958 as a member and its first vice-president. From 1947 to 1949 he was also a member of the regional council of the Bizone . The Landtag elected him a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President in 1949 . In 1952 he received the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) and in 1955 the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Kulmbach . On June 20, 1958, he received the Bavarian Order of Merit . Less than five months later, he died in Munich as a result of gastric surgery.

Web links

• Georg Hagen in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Hagen died 50 years ago . In: Bayerische Rundschau from October 25, 2008
2. ↑ Georg Hagen died 50 years ago . In: Bayerische Rundschau from October 25, 2008