Hans Toussaint

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Hans Toussaint (born February 2, 1902 in Essen , † June 12, 1977 in Essen- Rüttenscheid ) was a German economist and politician ( CDU ).

Education and professional activities

Toussaint was born the son of a police officer. After attending elementary and Humboldt secondary schools (today Frida Levy comprehensive school ), he graduated from high school in 1921. He took a degree in economics at the University of Cologne in which he in 1925 with earning his degree in business and awarded the degree of Dr. rer. pole. finished. Since 1922 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Rhineland Cologne.

Toussaint worked for a short time at the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Kohlen-Syndikat and then, due to his marriage to Erna Reeke, became a co-owner of the Reeke & Walger company in Essen as well as managing director of Eko-Lebensmittel GmbH, also in Essen.

politics

Economic offices

From 1945 Toussaint was a member of the general assembly of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the urban districts of Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen , from 1946 a member of the Presidium of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and later one of the deputy presidents. He was also a member of the Federal Association of German Wholesale and Foreign Trade and a board member of German food wholesalers . He was also president of the voluntary retail chain AFU in Mannheim , since 1945 president of the trade association for wholesale and foreign trade in North Rhine-Westphalia and president of the film funding agency founded in 1968 . He also became President of the Essen Civil Society from 1879 in 1968.

Founding member of the Essen CDU

Toussaint was one of the founders of the Essen CDU in 1946 with Heinrich Strunk , Josef Aust and others, whereupon he became its district chairman a little later. In 1967 he became honorary chairman for life.

Mayor of Essen

On June 29, 1945 Toussaint became a member of the citizens' committee for the entire city of Essen. This was followed by membership in the council appointed by the military government on February 6, 1946. On October 30th of that year he was elected to the city council of Essen and remained a member until 1975. There he was temporarily chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

On December 4, 1949, Toussaint was elected as the successor of Gustav Heinemann with 67.9 percent of the valid votes against Wilhelm Nieswandt (SPD), since five previous ballots did not result in a decision, in public election directly by the citizens as Lord Mayor of Essen . Since Gustav Heinemann had already resigned his office in August 1949 because he had been appointed Minister of Justice, Josef Aust was temporarily head of the city until the newly elected Lord Mayor Toussaint took office. In 1954 Toussaint was re-elected and in 1956 replaced by Nieswandt.

Member of the Landtag and Bundestag

From April 20, 1947 to 1958, Toussaint was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament and from 1957 to 1969 a member of the German Bundestag and represented the Essen III constituency in parliament.

In February 1952, together with several members of the state parliament, he campaigned for a law to amnesty all crimes committed in connection with the Second World War .

Honors

Crypt of the Toussaint family in the Bredeney cemetery , honor grave of the city of Essen

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 883-884.
  • Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia. Land and People 1946-2006: A Biographical Handbook . Aschendorff, Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-402-06615-7 , pp. 460 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 342-343 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 25 .
  2. ↑ Call for support for the non-partisan action to bring about the general amnesty. In: The minutes of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany. Volume 6: 1952. Edited by Dagmar Pöpping and Anke Silomon with the assistance of Karl-Heinz Fix, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3525557648 , pp. 209–216


personal data
SURNAME Toussaint, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (CDU), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1977
Place of death Rüttenscheid