Josef Baumgartner (politician, 1923)

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Josef Baumgartner (born December 23, 1923 in Schwabhausen ; † August 5, 2010 ) was a politician of the Bavarian Party .

Life and work

Baumgartner first attended primary school in Schwabhausen and later secondary school in Munich , which he graduated in 1941. From 1941 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier. After serving at the front in Russia, France and Italy, he was taken prisoner by the Americans in April 1945, from which he was released a year later after serious illness. From 1947 to 1950 he attended the State Building School in Munich, where he took an engineering degree. Since 1950 he was a partner in his parents' construction company with carpentry, sawmill and joinery, which still exists today as Josef Baumgartner GmbH & Co. KG . From 1956 he was a member of the regional advisory board at the Bavarian Trade Association.

Baumgartner was an honorary citizen of the Thuringian community Großschwabhausen , Schwabhausen's partner community. Baumgartner was married and had three children.

Political party

Baumgartner was initially a member of the Bavarian Party. From 1966 he got involved with the free voters .

MP

Baumgartner belonged to the Bavarian State Parliament from 1954 to 1962 for the Bavarian Party . The Landtag elected him a member of the third Federal Assembly , which elected Heinrich Lübke as Federal President on July 1, 1959 , and the fourth Federal Assembly, which re-elected Lübke.

From 1960 Baumgartner belonged to the district council of the district of Dachau . From 1966 he was also a member of the Schwabhausen municipal council.

Public offices

Baumgartner was second mayor of Schwabhausen from 1966 to 1972. From 1978 to 1993 was the first mayor of the municipality.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Former Mayor Josef Baumgartner leaves a big gap. In: Merkur-Online. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  2. Schwabhausen mourns former mayor Josef Baumgartner. In: Merkur-Online. Retrieved March 22, 2017.