Karl Grünewald

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Karl Grünewald (born December 29, 1911 , † February 23, 1976 ) was a German lawyer and local politician ( Bavarian party ) and Lord Mayor of Würzburg .

Life

Grünewald graduated in law and became a doctor of law doctorate . He joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was a civil servant in the Generalgouvernement during the Second World War .

Grünewald was elected Lord Mayor of Würzburg on October 29, 1948, as a representative of the Bavarian Party , but had to resign from office due to a new denazification process . On February 11, 1949, he was dismissed as mayor by the US military government and the district president because of his Nazi past. On May 6, 1949, he was classified in category IV (fellow travelers) by the main chamber of Ansbach in an award chamber procedure .

After a short term as mayor, he set up housing cooperatives . In 1952 he was convicted of four cases of infidelity in the first instance for misconduct during this period . The judgment was overturned in the appeal , as he acted to remedy the housing shortage that existed after the war and not from selfish motives. Since 1932 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Burgundia Munich.

Grünewald was district administrator of the Lower Franconian district of Königshofen i.Grabfeld from 1952 to 1972 and after its dissolution in the course of the district reform from 1972 to 1976, the first district administrator of the newly created district of Rhön-Grabfeld . In 1953 he was elected district administrator with 69% of the vote. Between 1953 and 1958 alone, he succeeded in locating several companies in the district, creating 500 jobs, building 455 new apartments, building nine schools and three village community houses. From 1958, criminal proceedings were opened before the Schweinfurt Regional Court against Grünewald for alleged cases of fraud, breach of trust, inducement of a subordinate to commit criminal acts and offenses against the law on the credit system. Grünwald was acquitted in the first instance, the Federal Court of Justice partially overturned the acquittal, but in the end he was also acquitted in 1961. The district government of Lower Franconia had already suspended him after the first acquittal in 1958, because, in their opinion, there were significant legal errors and contradictions in the actual findings of the judgment.

Honors

The Dr. Karl Grünewald School in Bad Königshofen has been named after him since the inauguration on May 14, 1977 . The Dr.-Karl-Grünewald-Straße in Bad Königshofen also bears his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Man of action, who got a lot of stones rolling . In: Main-Post Regional (December 28, 2011).
  2. ↑ Homepage of the Dr. Karl Grünewald School
  3. ↑ Jaromír Balcar (ed.): Politics in the country. Studies on the Bavarian Province 1945 to 1972. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, p. 118.
  4. ↑ a b c Jaromír Balcar, Thomas Schlemmer (ed.): At the top of the CSU. The governing bodies of the Christian Social Union 1946 to 1955. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 178.
  5. ↑ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 331.
  6. ↑ a b c d e The sufferings of Dr. Grünewald. In: Die Zeit No. 19/1961 of May 5, 1961.
  7. ↑ Dr. Karl Grünewald School. In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst. Vol. 30, 1978, p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Grünewald, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1911
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1976