Joseph Krekeler
Joseph Krekeler (born April 3, 1935 in Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz , † August 16, 2007 in Pirmasens ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1999 to 2003 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Pirmasens and from 1999 until his death he was parliamentary group leader of the CDU in the Palatinate District Parliament .
Life
Joseph Krekeler was born in Herxheim in 1935 in what was then the Landau district office and grew up in the Eifel . After graduating from high school, he trained as a tax officer and came to the Pirmasens tax office in 1959 . In 1968 he joined the CDU and was elected to the Pirmasens city council in 1969, to which he belonged until 1989. In that year he moved to the city of Pirmasens as a full-time alderman. In 1994 he became the deputy mayor of the Lord Mayor Robert Schelp , to whose successor he was elected in 1998.
During his term of office, among other things, the redesign of the station area and the construction of the Strecktalpark fell . Against the high unemployment in the city after the decline of the shoe industry and the withdrawal of the American garrison, he pushed ahead with the conversion of the abandoned Husterhöh barracks into an industrial park and promoted the technical college that had moved there , which grew into an important regional science location. His term of office ended in 2003; after reaching the age limit, he was not allowed to run for re-election.
Since 1984 Krekeler was also a member of the Palatinate District Assembly, from 1999 as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. Since 1989 he has been a member of the district committee and for many years also the committee for art, culture, Palatinate history and folklore, of which he was chairman from 1999 to 2004.
Joseph Krekeler, very popular with the citizens of Pirmasens, died in August 2007 after a brief serious illness at the age of 72.
Honors
In 2015, the city of Pirmasens named the newly laid out forecourt of the Alte Post as Joseph-Krekeler-Platz in honor of its former mayor. At the beginning of his tenure in 1999, Krekeler began converting the former main post office into a cultural center.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c District Association Palatinate : Joseph Krekeler was an outstanding personality. August 16, 2007, accessed October 17, 2018 .
- ^ A b Former Mayor of Pirmasens Joseph Krekeler died. In: pfaelzischer-merkur.de . August 16, 2007, accessed October 17, 2018 .
- ↑ A place for Joseph Krekeler. In: The Rhine Palatinate . September 23, 2015, accessed October 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krekeler, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Pirmasens |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 2007 |
| Place of death | Pirmasens |
Christian König (1885–1896) | Ludwig König sen. (1897-1905) | Otto Strobel (1905–1934) | Rudolf Ramm (1934–1937) | Emil Gauer (1937–1945) | Jakob Schunk (1945–1967) | Karl Rheinwalt (1967–1993) | Robert Schelp (1994-1998) | Joseph Krekeler (1999–2003) | Bernhard Matheis (2003–2019) | Markus Zwick (since 2019)