Heinrich Junker (politician, 1911)

Heinrich Junker (born August 30, 1911 in Munich ; † April 6, 1993 in Dachau ) was a graduate engineer, Bavarian CSU politician and Bavarian State Minister of the Interior.

After the Second World War he was from 1948 to 1957 District Administrator of the district Dachau and 1950-1970 deputy in the Bavarian state parliament for the voting district Dachau . On July 27, 1955, he applied for the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp to be closed , which triggered a worldwide storm of indignation. From October 1957 he was State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior , later from 1962 to 1966 State Minister of the Interior. At the end of 1968 he had to resign from chairing a committee of inquiry against the building contractor Hanns Maier when it became apparent that he had an (unpaid) seat on the advisory board of a Maiers company.

Junker was appointed President of Bayerische Landesbodenkreditanstalt in 1966, which merged with Bayerische Gemeindebank to form Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale in July 1972 . From 1972 to 1976 he was Vice President and from June 1, 1976 to June 1, 1977 President of Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale. Junker was an advocate of the death penalty.

Honors

1960: Bavarian Order of Merit
1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1975: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
1981: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Heinrich Junker in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

^ Comite Internationale de Dachau, Barbara Distel, Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Dachau Concentration Camp 1933 to 1945. Text and image documents for the exhibition, with CD . Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-87490-750-3 , p. 215 (Original title: Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 20, 1955. ): "Dispute over Dachau crematorium (...) The closure of the crematorium (...) calls for a motion that (...) brought in by Heinrich Junker in the Bavarian state parliament . "
↑ ^a ^b The ideal man . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1968 ( online - Dec. 2, 1968 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Junker, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CSU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1993
Place of death	Dachau

[sz-1] Comite Internationale de Dachau, Barbara Distel, Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Dachau Concentration Camp 1933 to 1945. Text and image documents for the exhibition, with CD . Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-87490-750-3 , p. 215 (Original title: Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 20, 1955. ): "Dispute over Dachau crematorium (...) The closure of the crematorium (...) calls for a motion that (...) brought in by Heinrich Junker in the Bavarian state parliament . "

[spiegel-2] The ideal man . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1968 ( online - Dec. 2, 1968 ).