Joseph Paul Franconia

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Joseph Paul Franken (born January 3, 1900 in Munich-Gladbach ; † January 10, 1980 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Joseph Paul Franken was born on January 3, 1900 as the son of a doctor and medical adviser in Munich-Gladbach. After graduating from high school in 1917 at the Stiftisches Humanist Gymnasium Munich-Gladbach and completing military service, he first studied Catholic theology and art history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He later switched subjects and began studying law, political science and economics at the universities in Bonn and Würzburg , which he completed with the first state examination in law. He became an active member of the Catholic student associations KStV Westmark in Bonn and KStV Walhalla in Würzburg in the KV . Franken completed his legal clerkship with the governments in Cologne and Münster , passed the Second State Exam in Law in 1928 and then joined the Prussian interior administration as a government assessor. As such, he held the position of deputy district administrator of the Paderborn district from 1928 to 1930 .

In 1929 Franconia married Gertrud Horion, the daughter of the governor of the Rhine province Johannes Horion . The marriage had three children.

Franconia worked as an assistant in the Reich Ministry of Labor from 1930 . In 1932 he switched to the Reich Ministry of Finance and worked at the same time in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture until 1938 . During his career as a ministerial official, he was appointed government councilor in 1933, senior government councilor in 1938 and ministerial councilor in 1941. In 1945 he initially resigned from civil service.

In 1946, Franken became regional director in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Development, Refugees and Social Affairs. From 1947 to 1949 he was chairman of the board of the working group for contemporary building eV in Kiel . In 1949 he went to Düsseldorf, where he was President of the State Settlement Office of North Rhine-Westphalia until 1952 . In 1951 he was appointed Ministerial Director. Since 1960 he has been chairman of the Society for Supranational Cooperation, President of the Society for the Promotion of Internal Colonization and since 1961 President of the Catholic Association of Academics . When there was a change of government in Düsseldorf in 1956, Franken was put into temporary retirement and was then a member of the management board of the Gerling Group until he was appointed minister in 1963 , and he also held various supervisory board mandates. From 1954 to 1967 he was also chairman of the old gentlemen's association of his Bonn student association Westmark in the KV, to which he remained lifelong.

In 1959 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1959 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

Joseph Paul Franken died on January 10, 1980 in Bad Godesberg.

politics

From 1952 to 1956, Franken was State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and from June 27, 1963 to July 26, 1966 as Minister for State Planning, Housing and Public Works in the State Government led by Prime Minister Franz Meyers .

Honors

literature

  • Munzinger : International Biographical Archive 18/1980 of April 21, 1980
  • S. Koß in Biographical Lexicon of KV Volume 5 - 1998 ISBN 3-89498-055-9 p. 49 ff

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