Josef Braun (politician, 1889)

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Josef Braun (born August 23, 1889 in Zeiskam , † July 31, 1955 in Mannheim ) was a German politician. From 1945 to 1948 he was the first Lord Mayor of Mannheim after the Second World War .

Life and work

Braun's grave in Mannheim

Braun was the son of a farmer. After elementary school in Zeiskam, he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic in Neustadt and attended an advanced training school there. He then worked as a technician and studied from 1908 to 1911 at the Mannheim Engineering School . He then worked as an engineer at the Mannheim municipal utility until 1945 , most recently as a city councilor. After the attempted coup against Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , he was briefly detained and interrogated.

Braun was married to Berta Rudershausen (1896–1968) and had three children. His grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim is adorned with a cross-shaped stele by P. Geißler.

politics

Josef Braun was a city councilor in Mannheim for the center from 1919 to 1933. In March 1945 he was appointed Lord Mayor of Mannheim by the American military government . In October of the same year he was a founding member of the CDP, the forerunner of the Mannheim CDU . In 1946 he was an appointed member of the Provisional People's Representation for Württemberg-Baden and was elected its deputy chairman. In the first mayor election in the same year, he was confirmed by the local council with the votes of the CDU, FDP and SPD. In the direct election in 1948 Braun was defeated by the opposing candidate of the SPD Fritz Cahn-Garnier with 43.4 percent of the vote .

In 1948/49 he was a member of the economic council of the Bizone and there deputy chairman of the civil service law committee. In the first election to the German Bundestag in 1949, he ran unsuccessfully in the Mannheim-Land constituency. In 1951 he was elected to the Mannheim municipal council with the highest number of votes , to which he belonged until his death.

Honors

The Mannheim Business School made Braun an honorary senator in 1949. The city of Mannheim named a street after him in 1957.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Münkel: Die Friedhöfe in Mannheim (SVA, 1992) p. 84
  2. ↑ MARCHIVUM: street names, Josef Braun shore. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .

literature

  • Joachim Irek: Mannheim in the years 1945–1949; History of a city between dictatorship and republic . Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-007530-6
  • Wolfgang Brach: The Mannheim City Council 1945–1984. Biographical manual. The Lord Mayors, Mayors and honorary members of the Mannheim City Council. Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-87804-162-4 .
  • Christian Peters: "Fortunately we are an exception": Mannheim in the fifties . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-0905-4
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeiskam
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1955
Place of death Mannheim