Georg Jöstingmeier

Georg Jöstingmeier on a state election poster in 1950

Georg Jöstingmeier (born October 9, 1905 in Hagen ; † August 28, 1994 in Münster ) was a lawyer and state politician for the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia .

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Jöstingmeier studied law , economics and philosophy in Münster. He first entered the judicial service and was a brief magistrate in 1932. From 1932 he worked as a lawyer and from 1946 also as a notary. Jöstingmeier specialized in administrative law.

On behalf of Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen , he defended priests and members of the order during the Nazi era . As a result, he himself came under suspicion of political unreliability and experienced multiple house searches by the Gestapo . During the Second World War , he was a department head in the military district administration in Münster between 1941 and 1943 and a department head in the road traffic department in Münster from 1944 to 1946. In April 1945 the Americans temporarily appointed him mayor of the village of Marmecke near Oberhundem . Since the village of Marmecke belonged to the district of the political municipality of Oberhundem, the function of a mayor in Marmecke was actually to be regarded as that of a local attendant, as the district administrator of the Olpe district, Dr. Spies, in his order to continue the administration of April 24, 1945.

Jöstingmeier was a member of the Center Party until 1933 . After 1945 he played an important role in founding the CDU. During the war he had already spoken to Bishop von Galen about a non-denominational Christian party. On September 2, 1945, he was one of the keynote speakers at the founding party conference of the Westphalian CDU in Bochum . In the following years Jöstinghaus repeatedly advised Konrad Adenauer on various issues. He was a board member of the Westphalian CDU and chairman of the party in the Münster administrative region . He was also a member of the constitutional committee of the CDU and CSU working group .

In Münster he was mainly involved in the reconstruction of the city. Among other things, he was able to contribute significantly to the financing of the new theater building.

Jöstingmeier was a member of the Provincial Council for Westphalia in 1946 and the appointed Landtag for North Rhine-Westphalia in 1946 and 1947 . He was then directly elected member of the state parliament for Münster-Stadt until 1958. He then retired from active politics for professional reasons.

Honors

Jöstingmeier was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on September 18, 1986 .

literature

Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia - country and people. 1946 - 2006. A Biographical Handbook . Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06615-7 , p. 239

Web links

Commons : Georg Jöstingmeier - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Georg Jöstingmeier at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Kirchhundem community archive, holdings: Rahrbach community, No. 701
↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Joestingmeier, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagen
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1994
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Kirchhundem community archive, holdings: Rahrbach community, No. 701

[2] Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .