Gilbert Just

Portrait of Gilbert Just in Düsseldorf City Hall , painter Oswald Petersen (1976)

Gilbert Just (born April 5, 1914 in Brno ; † April or May 1986) was senior city director of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf in the 1970s .

Gilbert Just was born as the son of the tax secretary Karl Just and his wife Hedwig Just. He studied law and economics at the German University in Prague . In 1945 he became a government assessor in Hessen. About the posts as deputy district administrator in Gießen and Groß-Gerau , consultant for price monitoring in the Darmstadt regional council, head of the price monitoring office, mayor in Grünberg / Upper Hesse (March to August 1946) and Bad Soden am Taunus (1948–1957), city director in Leverkusen ( 1957–1963) Just came to Düsseldorf as city director in 1963 and was appointed senior city director on October 15, 1964 as the successor to Walther Hensel (SPD). Just retired on November 11, 1976, followed by Gerd Högener (SPD). Just campaigned for the Düsseldorf University to be named after the local poet Heinrich Heine . For more than 15 years he was chairman of the Düsseldorf district association of the German Red Cross and was involved in the main committee of the German Association of Cities and the State Committee of the Association of North Rhine-Westphalian Cities for 10 years . He belonged to the SPD . In 1984 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit . He was also Honorary Commander Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and Commendatore dell ' Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana .

In 1940 he married Martha Worel, with whom he had three daughters and a son.

literature

Who is who? 19th edition, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7973-0296-7 , p. 438
Who's who in politics. Verlag Documentation, Munich-Pullach and Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-7940-3219-5 , p. 123
The city day. Journal for Community Practice and Science. Volume 37, No. 10, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, ISSN 0038-9048 , p. 666; Volume 39, No. 5, 1986, p. 348
Eleonore Sent: Dr. Robert Lehr 1883–1956. Finding aid for his estate in the Düsseldorf City Archives (= publications from the Düsseldorf City Archives, Volume 17). Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-926490-15-2 , p. 173
Ludwig Bergstrasse (author); Walter Mühlhausen (Ed.): Liberation, Occupation, New Beginning. Diary of the Darmstadt government president 1945–1948 (= biographical sources on German history after 1945, volume 5) Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-53871-3 , pp. 148, 236, 242, 247, 291, 389

personal data
SURNAME	Just, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), chief city director of Düsseldorf
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	April 1986 or May 1986