Joseph Köhler (politician)

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Joseph Köhler (born July 5, 1920 in Paderborn ; † January 9, 2011 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school , he was initially denied the promised apprenticeship position at the city administration, as this had meanwhile been " aligned " and Köhler refused (which was still possible at the time) to join the Hitler Youth . Instead, Köhler became an unskilled worker at the Lochs soap factory on Balhornstrasse.

In 1939 he first had to do the Reich Labor Service in Braunschweig and dig trenches for gas pipelines, then to the railways and in 1940 to the Wehrmacht and the Air Force. He spent most of his service as a flight instructor in Tutow . It was only towards the end of the war that he experienced the hardships and atrocities of the war while retreating from the Soviet troops.

After military service and first American, then British imprisonment, from 1948 he was managing director of the Paderborn local administration of the German Railway Workers Union , of which he had been a member since 1946. Köhler had been a member of the CDU since 1946. He was married and has two children.

MP

From 1946 to 1956 he was a member of the Elsen community council .

From July 24, 1966 to May 29, 1985, Köhler was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was elected directly in constituency 137 Paderborn I (1980 in constituency 118 Paderborn II).

From 1961 to 1993 he was a member of the district council of the Paderborn district .

On October 19, 1964, he was elected district administrator by the Paderborn district council and held this office until 1993.

Köhler was the chairman of the district assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1972 to 1993.

Joseph Koehler held the office of president of the German Association of District , the umbrella organization of all 323 German counties from 1 December 1984 to 30 November 1992. Vice President he was since 1975, the Presidium of the German Association of District he belonged since 1972. Joseph Köhler was elected honorary member on November 11, 1992.

Public offices

From October 1964 to 1993 he was district administrator for the Paderborn district.

Köhler was from 1972 to 1993 chairman of the board of the district council of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1984 to 1992 president of the German district council .

Honors

On July 5, 1973 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. On November 13, 1979 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit and on December 13, 1989 the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star. On May 19, 1994 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . He has also received numerous other awards.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2011
Place of death Paderborn