Georg Köhl (District Administrator)
Georg Köhl (born September 15, 1894 in Neu-Ulm , † 1975 ibid) was a Bavarian local politician ( CSU ). From 1948 to 1964 he was the district administrator of the Neu-Ulm district .
Life
Georg Köhl was born on September 15, 1894 as the fourth son of the Bavarian Lieutenant General Wilhelm Köhl and his wife Walburga, née Mahler, in Neu-Ulm. One of his brothers was the aviation pioneer Hermann Köhl .
Initially, Köhl completed a military career and took part in the First World War as a cadet . From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the Technical University of Munich . He then switched to finance management.
From 1933 he was reactivated as an officer; he was a member of the NSDAP and the SA . In 1947, however, he was deemed exonerated in a court proceedings .
Köhl died in 1975 after a long illness at the age of 81 in his native Neu-Ulm.
politics
After the Second World War , Köhl became involved in local politics. As a candidate for the CSU, he was elected district administrator of the Neu-Ulm district in June 1948. In 1952 he won the runoff election against the SPD candidate . In 1958 he was directly elected by the electorate in the district with 64 percent of the vote. For reasons of age, he did not run for the district election in 1964.
After the war, Köhl had to do a lot of construction work as district administrator. He sat down u. a. for the conversion of parts of the Muna site in Nersingen - Straß for residential and commercial purposes. Here a street was named after Georg Köhl.
From 1945 to 1960 Köhl was chairman of the CSU district association Neu-Ulm / Land.
Honors
- 1965: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Georg-Köhl-Strasse in Nersingen- Strasse
Individual evidence
- ↑ War trunk roll of the Kingdom of Bavaria, 1914, entry Georg Köhl ; Scan of the original viewed on ancestry.de on May 18, 2019.
- ↑ a b Peter Wischenbarth: Georg Köhl . In: Landkreis Neu-Ulm (Ed.): The Landkreis Neu-Ulm and its predecessors - an administrative history . 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812654-6-0 , pp. 100–101 ( online [PDF; accessed May 4, 2018]).
- ^ City of Neu-Ulm (ed.): Neu-Ulm flies on Hermann Köhl . S. 5 ( online [PDF]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Köhl, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CSU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |
| Place of death | New Ulm |