Josef Brandel

Grave in the main cemetery in Freiburg

Josef Brandel (born October 30, 1901 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 15, 1964 ibid), partly also Joseph Brandel , was Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1956 to 1962 .

Life

As the son of a basket merchant, he was baptized by the pastor Heinrich Hansjakob in the name of Josef Florian Franz . After graduating from high school in 1920, he studied law in Freiburg and became an active member of the Catholic student association Germania-Hohentwiel in the KV . He lived in Merianstraße 5. In 1924 he passed the state examination and received his doctorate in 1925 for Dr. jur. The topic of his dissertation was: The heritable building right in Freiburg i. Br. Since 1919 . In 1927 Brandel passed the second state examination in law . In 1928 he entered the service of the city of Freiburg, where he became city councilor. In 1939 he married Christina Maria Kissel from Worms.

After the Second World War , Brandel was considered unencumbered and in 1945 was appointed permanent representative of the Lord Mayor. He was the head of the legal department and head of the building department. From 1948 he was officially mayor.

As the head of the building administration, Brandel - together with the senior building directors Joseph Schlippe and from 1951 Hans Geiges - was largely responsible for the reconstruction of the ruined inner city on the old medieval scale. In addition, around 10,000 new apartments were built between 1948 and 1955, and in 1950 Freiburg had returned to its pre-war size with 112,000 inhabitants; further significant population growth due to immigration required great efforts in housing construction.

Brandel was a member of the Center Party even before 1933 , which is why it was obvious that he would join the CDU after it was founded . Like most of the CDU in southern Baden, Brandel took the “old Baden ” position on the so-called “Baden question”, which stated that the old state of Baden , which after the war belonged to the American zone in the north and the French zone in the south , should be re-established .

When the then Lord Mayor Wolfgang Hoffmann died unexpectedly in 1956 , it was clear that the new Lord Mayor would also belong to the CDU again in view of the majority situation. The party set up the party chairman Anton Dichtel from southern Baden ; But Brandel also applied and won the election with the help of a non-partisan electoral alliance clearly (with 67.7%) against the official candidate of the leading party (28.4%), to which he himself belonged.

Memorial stone in the Joseph Brandel facility

During his tenure in 1957, the university celebrated its 500th anniversary and the city's first twinning with the French city of Besançon in 1959, the connection of Freiburg to the motorway network, the extensive completion of the reconstruction, the beginning of a planned industrial settlement and the development of new residential areas which became necessary due to the rapidly growing population (around 2000 new residents annually) and the greater space requirements of the local population, and last but not least the establishment of a municipal culture prize, the Reinhold Schneider Prize . In 1958 he was also accepted as an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau .

Due to his poor health, Brandel resigned from the office of mayor on June 30, 1962. His successor was the social democrat Eugen Keidel . Brandel died in Freiburg on January 15, 1964 and was buried in the Freiburg main cemetery.

In the Freiburg district of Haslach , a memorial stone in the green area named after him commemorates the former mayor. The creation of the Joseph Brandel facility goes back to his initiative.

Web links

Commons : Josef Brandel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at LeoBW

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Address book of the capital Freiburg im Breisgau for the year 1922. P. 28 , accessed on December 16, 2012
2. ↑ Brandel Josef Florian Franz , leo-bw.de, accessed on December 22, 2012
3. ↑ Joseph-Brandel-Anlage , Badische Zeitung, September 19, 2009, accessed on December 11, 2012

literature

• Adolf J. Schmid : Josef Brandel. In: Freiburg Almanac 2001 . Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, pp. 30–34

predecessor	Office	successor
Wolfgang Hoffmann	Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau 1956–1962	Eugene Keidel