Georg Stolle

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Georg Stolle (born August 5, 1938 in Neustadt / Upper Silesia ; † ️ January 19, 2020 in Bensheim) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1972 to 2002 he was mayor of the Hessian city ​​of Bensheim an der Bergstrasse .

Life

After his family was expelled from Neustadt in Upper Silesia, Stolle first attended elementary school in Recklinghausen and came to Bensheim with his mother (his father died in 1945) and his brother at the age of eleven, where he attended the Alte Kurfürstliche Gymnasium (AKG) in Bensheim . He lived for over ten years in the former Bischöflichen Konvikt, a house in which he would later become town hall chief.

After graduating from the AKG, Stolle studied metallurgy in Aachen. From 1959 to 1964 studied Stolle at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Law . The legal clerkship up to the 2nd state examination ended in mid-1968. After that he was a consultant at the Hessian Association of Cities and Towns in Mühlheim am Main . At the age of 34, Stolle came to Bensheim as a senior administrator at the Association of Towns and Municipalities.

In his first election as mayor of the city of Bensheim in early December 1972, he only narrowly prevailed against his rival from the SPD , the later Hessian Minister of State Karl Schneider . When he took office on December 15, 1972, he succeeded Wilhelm Kilian , who was mayor of the city from 1954 until his death in 1971. After Kilian's death, the office of Bensheim mayor was initially vacant for over a year, partly because the local elections in 1972 had to be awaited before the mayor could be re-elected after the completed regional reform.

Since the new municipal code of the Grand Duchy of Hesse came into force, the administrative lawyer Georg Stolle was the 18th mayor of Bensheim and held the office until 2002. In 2002, for reasons of age, he was no longer eligible for re-election. His successor was Thorsten Herrmann .

Stolle had significant success in the successful development of Bensheim. In addition to his role as mayor, Stolle was also chairman of the district council and from 1985 to 1993 he was president and vice-president of the Hessian Association of Towns and Municipalities . Stolle gained national attention in the Bensheim building authority scandal in 1992/93. He was the initiator of the town twinning with Riva del Garda and, as chairman of the German-European Educational Institute in Hesse, was committed to promoting European international understanding. From 2012 to 2018 he was the deputy state chairman of the Federation of Displaced Persons. As a native of Upper Silesia, he has been serving the Landesgruppe Hessen of the Landsmannschaft Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia - from 2012 until his death. There, as deputy state chairman, he made a decisive contribution to the success of the annual "Silesian State Culture Days Hesse".

Georg Stolle was married to Waltraud Stolle. He died on January 19, 2020 in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse.

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  1. ↑ a b Dirk Rosenberger: Mourning for Georg Stolle. In: morgenweb.de. January 21, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Dirk Rosenberger: Bensheim designed with energy and courage. In: morgenweb.de. January 25, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  3. ^ Building authority scandal makes the city known.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bergsträßer Anzeiger from August 4, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.morgenweb.de  
personal data
SURNAME Stolle, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), mayor
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2020
Place of death Bensheim