Georg Stang (politician, 1880)

Georg Stang, 1912

Georg Stang (born February 20, 1880 in Amorbach , Lower Franconia ; † May 10, 1951 in Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia) was a Bavarian high school teacher and politician ( center , BVP and CSU ). From 1929 to 1933 and from 1950 to 1951 he was President of the Bavarian State Parliament .

education and profession

Stang, the son of a master confectioner, graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Münnerstadt in 1898 . He studied at the University of Würzburg and became a member of the K.St.V. Normannia Würzburg, where he worked very actively. In 1902 and 1903 he passed the state examinations in classical philology and history . Positions as high school teacher in Amorbach, Hof , Würzburg and Munich followed . In 1944 he was forced into retirement by the National Socialists. In 1946 he became senior director of studies at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich.

Political career

On February 5, 1912, Georg Stang was elected as a member of the Bavarian state parliament. In August 1912 he appeared as a keynote speaker at the German Catholic Day in Aachen . From 1919 to 1929, Stang was deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) . In 1929 he was elected President of the Bavarian State Parliament and confirmed in this office in 1932. In 1932, as President of the Landtag, Stang excluded the uniformed National Socialist MPs from parliament for several sessions after they had appeared there in a brown shirt with party armband in spite of the uniform ban in Bavaria until September 30, 1932 , and this had led to "serious tumult scenes". After the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 he lost his seat in Parliament and came into so-called protective custody in the Dachau concentration camp , and later he was released; In 1944 he was again imprisoned in Dachau. After the end of the war, Stang was initially appointed by the US military government as district administrator for the Kaufbeuren district and confirmed as such in elections in 1946 and 1948. At the end of February 1946 he was elected President of the Bavarian Advisory State Committee, which passed into the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly elected on June 30, 1946, and then into the Bavarian State Parliament, elected on December 1, 1946 . He was chairman of the state budget committee and the interim committee in the state parliament. On February 8, 1950, Stang succeeded Michael Horlacher as President of the Bavarian State Parliament; on December 11, 1950 (after the state election in 1950 ) the state parliament re-elected him to this office. He died on May 10, 1951 while taking a cure.

Honors

Stang received an honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Papal Order of Gregory . In his honor, a street in Amorbach was named Georg-Stang-Ring .

literature

• Hilde Balke: The Presidents of the Bavarian State Parliament. From 1946 to 1994. Bavarian State Parliament, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-927924-23-7 .
• Wolfgang Weiß: Georg Stang (1880–1951). Classical philologist and politician. In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, pp. 345-350.

Web links

Commons : Georg Stang (CSU)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Georg Stang in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia. The Volkish Awakening in Neustadt ad Aisch 1922–1933. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2016 (= Streiflichter aus der Heimatgeschichte. Ed. By Geschichts- und Heimatverein Neustadt ad Aisch e.V., special volume 4), 3rd, extended edition ibid. 2016, p. 122 f.