Gottfried Miller

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Gottfried Miller (born November 7, 1923 - † December 25, 2018 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale ) was a former German politician ( CSU ).

Miller grew up with seven siblings on his parents' farm in Wargolshausen . He attended the Benedictine boarding school in St. Ludwig's monastery in Wipfeld and the grammar school in Würzburg . In 1942 he had to interrupt his school career by being drafted into the Wehrmacht , in the summer of 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets at Kishinev . After surviving life-threatening illnesses (dysentery, typhus, dystrophy), Ukrainian women helped him in the Kharkiv electric motor plant . As part of a documentation by Norddeutscher Rundfunkfrom 2005 he met these women again. After his return he finished high school and studied law in Würzburg.

After completing his studies, Miller initially worked for the government of Lower Franconia and later in the district office in Karlstadt . In 1963 he was elected as the successor to his late father Albert to the district administrator of the Bad Neustadt an der Saale district, which he held until the district reform in 1972 . During his term of office, today's district office and the Salzforststrasse, which is now the NES 51 district road from Windshausen to Schmalwasser , were built. Other new facilities (technical college, state business school, new vocational school in Bad Neustadt an der Saale ) have also been launched. In 1972 Miller took up the post of district administrator of the new district of Bad Neustadt an der Saale (later district of Rhön-Grabfeld ), but was narrowly defeated by the former district administrator of Königshofen , Karl Grünewald . In addition, for several years he was district chairman of the CSU, of which he has been a member since 1952. From 1974 to 1988 he was managing director of the diocesan office in Bad Neustadt an der Saale.

Miller also held many honorary posts, for example as chairman of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park, which he founded , the Rhön-Saale tourism association , the Rhön Club Bad Neustadt, the district association of the German Caritas Association , the St. Konrad young senior group and the returnees association . Under him, the Neustadt house was also rebuilt and enlarged. He has received numerous awards for his commitment.

Miller was married twice and both wives died. He has five children and 14 grandchildren.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Miller becomes 85 articles in the Main-Post from November 6, 2008
  2. ↑ Miller: All water flows to Neustadt Article in the Main Post from April 20, 2012
  3. ↑ Gottfried Miller has been in the CSU article in Main-Post from April 23, 2012 for 60 years
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), District Administrator a. D.
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1923
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2018
Place of death Bad Neustadt an der Saale