Josef Mendling

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Josef Mendling (born August 4, 1920 in Koblenz ; † August 31, 2000 there ) was a German administrative officer and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Mendling attended middle school, which he graduated with secondary school leaving certificate. From 1937 he did Reich labor service , was drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in World War II as a soldier , most recently as a platoon leader in a paratrooper company. In 1943 he was captured by the United States, from which he was released in 1946. After his return from captivity, he worked as an employee at the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate . He became a civil servant in 1954 and from 1962 worked as a government inspector at the Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement . In the meantime he attended the administration and business academy under private law , where he obtained the administration diploma (VWA) in 1959 and the municipal diploma (VWA) in 1960.

In addition to his professional activity, Mendling was involved in the workers' welfare organization . He was chairman of the AWO for the Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau district since 1967 and was elected state chairman of the AWO Rhineland-Palatinate in 1968. Since 1974 he has also been a member of the AWO federal board.

Mendling joined the SPD in 1956. He was initially active in local politics, was a city councilor in Koblenz from 1960 to 1969 and has been chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there since 1962. In the state elections in 1963 and 1967 , he was elected as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he was a member until his resignation on April 18, 1970. In parliament he represented the constituency 1 of the state parliament .

Mendling was elected mayor of the city of Koblenz in 1969. He was alderman and deputy to the Lord Mayors Willi Werner Macke and Willi Hört . In his local political function, he had been a member of the supervisory board of Energieversorgung Mittelrhein since 1972 and a member of the forestry committee of the Federal Association of Central Local Associations since 1973 . In 1983 he renounced the mayor's office for health reasons and was replaced in this position by Eckart Braunöhler.

Josef Mendling had been with Elfriede, geb. Klee, married and had two children.

Honors

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. Volume 21, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1981, p. 778.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The City Day. Journal for Community Practice and Science. Vol. 36, W. Kohlhammer, 1983, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Mendling, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2000
Place of death Koblenz