Josef Piechl

Josef Piechl (born September 14, 1889 in Riedern near Waakirchen , † August 18, 1961 in Mainburg ) was a German politician (peasant party, CSU).

Live and act

Piechl came from a Catholic farming family from Bavaria. After attending school, he worked as a farmer on his father's estate and as a merchant until 1909. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. Until 1921 he was a civil servant, then an independent farmer and hops merchant.

In the Weimar Republic , Piechl was politically active in the German Peasant Party (DBP). From 1928 to 1932 he belonged to the Bavarian state parliament as a deputy to. In the Reichstag election of July 1932 , Piechl was elected to the seventh Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , in which he represented constituency 25 (Lower Bavaria). After his mandate was confirmed in the Reichstag elections in November 1932 , he was a member of parliament until March 1933. In addition, Piechl was second chairman of the Mainburg district assembly and founder of the newspaper Der Hopfenbauer .

In 1933, Piechl was temporarily arrested.

On May 5, 1945, Piechl was appointed district administrator of his home town in Mainburg by the American military government in Bavaria . He held this office until 1961. He was also a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the Kelheim-Mainburg constituency from 1946 to 1961 . Politically, he was now a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He was also still a hop farmer and chairman of the Association of German Hop Growers.

Piechl was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on July 3, 1959 . Today, among other things, Josef-Piechl-Straße in Mainburg is a reminder of his life and political activities.

Web links

• Josef Piechl in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Josef Piechl in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Detter: Mainburgs Heimatgeschichte , 1974, p. 455.