Julius Lehlbach

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Julius Lehlbach on August 31, 1985 in Mainz

Julius Lehlbach (born February 24, 1922 in Mannheim ; † March 4, 2001 in Mainz ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending the Lessing Realgymnasium and the Friedrich-List Business School in Mannheim, Lehlbach was drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in World War II as a soldier . From 1945 he worked as an industrial clerk in the chemical industry. In 1950 he took up a job as a trade union secretary in Mannheim, later moved to Frankfurt am Main in the same position and became deputy chairman of the DGB district of Hesse in 1959 . In 1965 he moved to Mainz-Laubenheim . From 1965 to 1986 he was the successor to Karl Thorwirth and chairman of the DGB regional district of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1966 to 1986 he acted intermittently as chairman of the board of the LVA Rhineland-Palatinate , based in Speyer .

In the state elections in 1971 and 1975 , Lehlbach was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament via the SPD's state list, to which he belonged until 1979. In parliament he was a member of the Committee on Economics and Transport from 1971 to 1979 and chairman of the cultural policy committee from 1975 to 1979. Since the beginning of the 1980s he was actively involved in the peace movement . As an opponent of the NATO double decision , he campaigned against the stationing of chemical weapons in the Palatinate.

Lehlbach was a member of the Board of Trustees and Senate of the University of Mainz . He was a member of the supervisory board of Neue Heimat Südwest and the supervisory board of the Landesbank and Girozentrale Rheinland-Pfalz .

Awards and honors

Lehlbach was an honorary citizen of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He had refused to be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit several times. In 1990 he was honored with the Wilhelm Dröscher plaque by the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate . The DGB building on Mainzer Kaiserstraße was named in 2014 after the fighter against the stationing of poison gas weapons.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 413-414.
  • Ernst Heimes : The goal of our longing is far. Julius Lehlbach (1922–2001) - a life for peace, freedom and social justice. Ed .: State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-00-015025-0 .

Web links

Commons : Julius Lehlbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poison gas. Fundamental right undermined . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1982, pp. 39-40 ( Online - Aug. 30, 1982 ).
  2. ^ Poison gas. Fears and rumors . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1983, pp. 59-61 ( online - March 14, 1983 ).
  3. ^ Honorary citizens of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, accessed on June 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Monika Nellessen: DGB House is named after the social democrat Julius Lehlbach in: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz from January 8, 2014, accessed on June 12, 2016
  5. ^ DGB house in Mainz now Julius-Lehlbach-Haus January 18, 2014 In: Landeszeitung Rheinlandpfalz, accessed on June 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Lehlbach, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2001
Place of death Mainz