Hans Goernert

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Hans Görnert (born May 3, 1934 in Wetzlar ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). From 1977 to 1979 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Lahn and, after its dissolution, from 1979 to 1985, Lord Mayor of the city of Gießen .

Life

The son of the engineer Paul Görnert and Luise Görnert, née Theiss, attended the Goetheschule in Wetzlar , where he passed his Abitur . He then started to study law at the universities of Heidelberg and Marburg , which he completed with the first state examination. He is a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg student union . After completing his legal preparatory service and taking the second state examination in 1959, he entered the judicial service and worked as a judge until 1977, most recently as the regional court director at the Giessen regional court . He later worked as a lawyer in Giessen and Gotha.

In the 1970s, a regional reform was gradually carried out in Hesse , in the course of which on January 1, 1977, in addition to the already existing regional centers of Kassel and Frankfurt am Main , the larger municipality of Lahn was formed from the previously independent municipalities of Gießen and Wetzlar as well as from other small communities . Although the planning and realization of the new city was carried out in particular at the instigation of the SPD and at the initiative of Prime Minister Albert Osswald , the SPD performed worse in the local elections in Hesse in 1977 than in the previous election . The CDU , on the other hand, was hostile to some mergers; it profited from the voter migration, achieved election success and gained numerous additional seats in the municipal councils and city councils in Hesse. Even the magistrate of the city of Lahn, which has around 156,000 inhabitants, was mainly occupied by politicians from the CDU after the local elections; Wilhelm Runtsch (CDU) became Lord Mayor and Görnert became First Mayor. After Runtsch's death, Görnert took over the mayor's office, which he held until the dissolution of the city of Lahn, which was carried out on July 31, 1979, especially after citizen protests in Wetzlar.

Subsequently, Görnert was Lord Mayor of the now independent city of Giessen from 1979 to 1985. During his term of office, the town twinning agreements between Giessen and Netanya took place in the summer of 1978 and Waterloo (Iowa) at the end of 1980.

On his 75th birthday, Görnert described the city of Lahn as "designed on the drawing board" and as the "brainchild" of the then ruling SPD in Hesse. The fact that he held the office of mayor as a politician of the CDU, which vehemently rejected the merger, he called "somewhat schizophrenic". Paradoxically , according to the report by Wetzlar city archivist Irene Jung, the plan for a large city on the Lahn originated in 1968 by Wilhelm Runtsch.

Hans Görnert is married to Sibylle, née Gerhardt, and lives in Berlin. From his first marriage he has two daughters and a son.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Görnert, Hans. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b c Görnert, Hans. In: Who is who? The German who's who. 32nd edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3-7950-2013-1 , p. 425.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 12 , 1111
  4. ↑ a b c Dissolution of the Lahn city 30 years ago. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 30, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Israel trip: Prime Minister Bouffier meets honorary citizen of Giessen. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung . June 23, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Reinforce contact with Waterloo. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. August 16, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Goernert, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of the cities of Lahn (1977–1979) and Gießen (1979–1985)
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar