Karl Delorme

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Karl Delorme on August 31, 1985 in Mainz

Karl Delorme (born January 23, 1920 in Mainz ; † March 12, 2011 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was mayor of the city of Mainz and a member of the Bundestag .

Life

Delorme was born as the third child of a family of craftsmen in the old town of Mainz and grew up there. Karl Delorme was an active member of the Catholic youth . He learned the profession of typesetter in the printing shop of the Catholic apprentice house . During the Second World War (1939-1945) he was a soldier . In 1946 he was released from American captivity . In the same year he joined the SPD.

From 1950 until his election in 1957 as mayor and full-time department head for social affairs, he was a member of the Mainz city ​​council . As a member of the city council, he had close and friendly contacts with Jockel Fuchs , who was Mayor of Mainz from 1965 . From 1960 to 1976 he was the SPD chairman of the Mainz sub-district. The establishment of a redevelopment office under his direction was the starting point for the redevelopment area of ​​the southern old town within the Mainz old town redevelopment or urban core redevelopment . As head of department, Delorme worked, among other things, on the foundation of St. John's Night, which was first celebrated in 1968 on the 500th anniversary of the death of Johannes Gutenberg . In 1981, he moved from his full-time position in the town board to a voluntary councilor , a function that he in until his election Bundestag held.

Delorme was 29 March 1983 to 18 February 1987, a term long member of the German Bundestag . He was elected via the state list of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate .

Since 1994 he has been President of the Workers' Samaritan Federation of Rhineland-Palatinate. Karl Delorme was married and had two children.

Honors

Delorme was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit and the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . He received the ring of honor of the city of Mainz , the gold Rheingold plaque in gold, the Martinus Medal of the Diocese of Mainz and the ASB Cross of Honor in gold and silver. In December 2004 the Mainz city council decided to make Karl Delorme an honorary citizen of the city of Mainz.

Web links

  • mainz.de - Portrait of Karl Delorme with examples of his voluntary work

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mainz honorary citizen Karl Delorme has passed away ( Memento of March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Allgemeine Zeitung of March 13, 2011. Retrieved on March 13, 2011.
  2. ^ Franz Dumont : Landeshaupt- und Universitätsstadt (1945 / 45-1997) , p. 552 in: Franz Dumont (ed.), Ferdinand Scherf , Friedrich Schütz : Mainz - The history of the city. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998 (first edition)
  3. ↑ The city of Mainz levies compensation amounts in the redevelopment area southern old town part A Mainz
  4. ↑ Karl Delorme is dead. Rhein-Zeitung , March 12, 2011, accessed on March 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Rheinpfalz of March 16, 2011, ASB obituary notice on page 24
  6. ↑ Biography on Mainz.de
personal data
SURNAME Delorme, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2011