Georg Letz

Georg Letz (born February 10, 1919 in Berlin ; † February 7, 1978 in Geiselgasteig ) was a senior executive at Siemens and a politician of the FDP .

education and profession

After attending a secondary school , Letz began an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1943 was taken prisoner by the French in Tunisia . After his release in 1947, he took on various tasks for Siemens abroad. Most recently, he was chief consultant and director in the central sales department for Siemens in Erlangen .

Political

Letz became a member of the FDP in 1950. From 1953 to 1955 he headed the Erlangen district association, from 1955 to 1959 and again from 1967 until his death he was a member of the state board of the FDP Bavaria , temporarily as deputy state chairman. From 1965 to 1971 he was chairman of the Central Franconian regional association and from 1969 to 1973 chairman of the party's regional committee on cultural policy. At the federal and state level, he participated in various program commissions and thus contributed, among other things, to the Berlin program of 1957. From 1972 he was an assessor in the FDP federal executive committee .

Honorary positions

Letz was on the advisory board of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing . From 1958 to 1964 and again from 1968 to 1970 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . He was a member of the board of directors from 1964 to 1967 and, most recently, from 1970 until his death, he was deputy chairman of the foundation.

Georg Letz's political estate can be found in the Liberalism Archives of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

literature

• Friedrich Naumann Foundation: Annual Report , Bonn 1959 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ All information based on the documents in the Letz estate in the Liberalism Archives.