Gustav Wolff (politician)

Gustav Wolff (born February 3, 1894 in Annweiler am Trifels , † May 4, 1973 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German teacher and politician ( BVP , CDP / CDU ).

Life

Wolff attended elementary school and high school. After studying at the teachers' college in Speyer, he was an assistant teacher from 1912 to 1913 and an assistant teacher from 1914 to 1915. Between 1915 and 1917 he was a soldier in the First World War . His last rank was private. In 1918 and 1919 he worked as a school administrator, from 1920 to 1931 as a primary school teacher and from 1931 to 1946 as the main teacher. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was 1933 SA mistreated and in protective custody taken. From 1939 to 1940 he was the acting head of the Landau Gaubund branch of the Reich Association of the Physically Disabled. From 1945 he was acting head of the elementary school and the vocational and commercial school in Landau. In 1948 he became rector. From 1948 to 1950 he worked as a government librarian in the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate, where he became a councilor in 1948. From 1950 to 1952 he was head of the press and information office of the federal government in Bonn before he worked from 1952 to 1956 in the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate and between 1956 and 1959 as senior councilor in the district government of the Palatinate in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.

politics

In 1918 he joined the Bavarian People's Party at. In 1924 he became city and district chairman of the Landau Center Party and from 1929 to 1933 was a member of the city council of the Landau Center Party. In the time of National Socialism he could not continue his political work. In 1935 he became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and from 1935 to 1944 a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association .

After the Second World War , he was Mayor of Landau from 1945 to 1946. In 1946 he was a member of the National Advisory Assembly . As part of the denazification , the ZSK decision was that he was politically unsustainable as mayor, but should remain in service as a teacher, but not in a managerial position, with a 6-year ban on promotion. In addition, on November 18, 1946, political eligibility was denied, and on November 22, 1946, a year was prohibited from practicing the profession. Accordingly, on October 8, 1946, he was declared to have lost his mandate in the Advisory State Assembly, but he continued to attend meetings. With the judgment of the Neustadt Chamber of Justice on November 7, 1947, the ZSK decision was overturned and he was not affected by further political purge proceedings.

In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Party in Rheinhessen-Palatinate and honorary managing director. Later he was first chairman of the CDU Landau.

In addition, from 1912 he was a member of the Catholic Teachers 'Association, from 1919 first chairman of the Catholic Young Teachers' Association of the Palatinate, board member of the Catholic teachers 'association of the Palatinate and state board member of the Bavarian teachers' association.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1972)
• Adenauer badge

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p 762-763.

Web links

• Entry on Gustav Wolff in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database