Gustav Röhl (politician, 1896)

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Gustav Röhl (born March 4, 1896 in Wangen im Allgäu ; † August 27, 1962 ) was a German local politician .

Life

Gustav Röhl learned the trade of locksmith . During the First World War , he volunteered as a war volunteer . In 1921 he married in Lindau . From 1929 on he worked as a labor administrator in Augsburg and Nördlingen , was then dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933 because of his political convictions and imprisoned for two years. Then he moved back to Lindau. From 1945 Gustav Röhl was the head of the employment office there . Together with his wife, Gustav Röhl founded the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Lindau in 1946 . He was represented on the Lindau City Council for a total of 20 years - for the first time in 1925. After the Second World War , Röhl was deputy mayor or deputy mayor for three terms. He retired on April 1, 1961.

Honors

The Gustav-Röhl-Uferweg on Lindau Island was named after him.

literature

  • Werner Dobras: New Year's Sheet 26 of the Lindau Museum Association - Lindau Personalities , 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District association Lindau - The chronicle of the AWO in Swabia. Retrieved on March 4, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ Swabian - The regional news portal in Baden-Württemberg . In: Swabian . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on March 4, 2018]).