Karl Munzel

Karl Munzel (born September 1, 1906 in Peine , † June 20, 1994 in Peine) was a German lawyer , local politician and district administrator of Peine.

Life

Karl Munzel was born as the son of the rolling mill foreman Karl Munzel and, after graduating from high school, studied law in Göttingen , Freiburg and Munich at the Peiner Realgymnasium in 1925 . In 1925 he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity in Göttingen . After the state examination at the Higher Regional Court in Celle in 1929 and his doctorate in 1930 with Hermann Mirbt , he passed the last legal examination in 1933 and settled as a lawyer in Peine in the same year . During the Second World War he worked as a lawyer for the military administration in Brussels and Paris , where he married in 1941. This marriage resulted in 2 sons and a daughter. In the early summer of 1945 he returned to Peine and became a notary in 1946 . He ran his law firm himself until 1986 and it still exists today under the management of a son and a granddaughter in the third generation as a law firm and notary's office.

In 1946 Munzel co-founded the CDU in the city and district of Peine , of which he later became honorary chairman. From 1953 to 1968 he was chairman of the CDU district association Peine. He was a member of the district council from 1948 to 1958, and from 1949 to 1951 he was district administrator. In 1956 Munzel joined the city ​​council , to which he belonged until 1974 , at times as parliamentary group chairman . Among other things, he chaired the council's green committee and was co-initiator of the Peiner Heywoodpark and the rose garden.

In 1952 he joined the Peiner Bürger-Jäger-Corps, in the 1970s he was the church mayor and chairman of the Peiner Lawyers Association and the Association of House and Landowners . He was also a member of the Lower Saxony State Court in Bückeburg from 1958 to 1985 . He died in his hometown in 1994.

Honors

1975: Award of the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Publications

• The legally binding decision of the Reich Court on the basis of Article 13 Paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Empire of April 11, 1919 and the Implementing Act of April 8, 1920. Dissertation University of Göttingen. Hildesheim 1931. With curriculum vitae on p. 68.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 411.
• Hans-Hermann Rudolph (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda. Göttingen 1994, pp. 82-84.
• Obituary in: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung , July 21, 1994, p. 105.