Helmut Loos (politician)

Candidate poster for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1985

Helmut Antonius Loos (born January 8, 1924 in Engers , now Neuwied im Westerwald ; † March 19, 2000 in Niederkassel ), raised in Porz since he was 11 , was a German politician ( CDU ) and from 1970 to 1985 a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia -Westphalia .

Life and work

After elementary school and high school, he passed the Abitur in 1943. Immediately thereafter, Loos was employed as a radio operator and later an infantryman on the Eastern Front, where he was seriously wounded and taken prisoner by the Soviets towards the end of the war. After his release in 1949, Loos took up teaching studies at the Pädagogische Akademie Aachen with the core subjects German and history at elementary schools, which he passed in 1951 with the first state examination and in 1954 with the second state examination. After teaching positions from 1951 in Gremberghoven and Porz, Loos moved to Lülsdorf , now Niederkassel , in 1957 , to settle there as a teacher and later rector of the local secondary school. He held this position until 1975, when the incompatibility of office and mandate according to the state legal status law at the beginning of the 8th electoral term also included the teaching profession.

Helmut Loos was married and had three daughters.

politics

Loos joined the CDU as a member in 1954. His numerous functions and offices in various committees of the party, local and state politics as well as clubs and institutions include, among other things, the long-term chairmanship of the CDU local association Lülsdorf and, after the local reorganization of the CDU local association Niederkassel and that of the sports club Spielvereinigung Lülsdorf -Ranzel 1959 eV

Loos belonged to the district council of the Siegkreis from 1961 to 1969 and, after the municipal reorganization, again to that of the Rhein-Sieg district from 1969 to 1979. There he was deputy district administrator from 1975 and from 1976 to 1978 CDU parliamentary group chairman.

After Loos was a council member and honorary mayor of the council of the community of Lülsdorf from 1961 to 1969 , he was a council member of the community of Niederkassel from 1969 to 1975.

During the entire period from the 7th to the 9th electoral term (from July 26, 1970 to May 29, 1985) Loos was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia without interruption . He was elected directly in the constituency 024 Siegkreis I (in which the later Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was running for the NRW state election in 1947), later 024 Rhein-Sieg-Kreis II and 030 Rhein-Sieg-Kreis IV). In the state elections in 1985 Loos lost the mandate against his social democratic challenger Hans Jaax . The focus of his state political work lay in the areas of public security, schools and education as well as the petitions committee, of which he became a member in 1975. Loos took over the chairmanship of this compulsory committee with North Rhine-Westphalian constitutional status from 1980 to 1985.

In recognition of his many years of political engagement, Federal President Walter Scheel awarded him the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974 and Federal President Karl Carstens the next higher level as the Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1982.

The Helmut Loos indoor swimming pool in the town of Niederkassel is named after him.

Web links

Helmut Loos (politician) at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

literature

• State Parliament Archive Düsseldorf: Biographical compendium for the member of the State Parliament Helmut Loos (inventory A 02 08/470).

• 60 years of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: the state and its members. Düsseldorf, 2006. p. 437