Karl Scharnagl
Karl Scharnagl (born January 17, 1881 in Munich ; † April 6, 1963 there ) was a German politician . From 1925 to 1933 and from 1945 to 1948 he was Lord Mayor of Munich and in 1945 co-founder of the CSU .
Life
Scharnagl initially learned the bakery and confectionery trade in his parents' business, but embarked on a political career at a young age. His brother Anton Scharnagl became a clergyman. As early as 1911, just 30 years old, he became a member of the Center Party in the Second Chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament . After it split off from the Center Party, he was a member of the Bavarian People's Party from 1918 , which he represented for two further terms - from 1920 to 1924 and from 1928 to 1932 - as a member of the state parliament . In 1917 he was also on the select committee of the Bavarian state association of the German Fatherland Party .
In 1919 Scharnagl was elected to the Munich City Council, in 1925 First Mayor and in 1926 Lord Mayor of the city. As such, he made particular efforts to expand the transport network and to build housing. After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, he resigned after several conflicts and returned to his trained profession as a baker.
Scharnagl was in contact with the Bavarian bourgeois resistance circle around Franz Sperr and Eduard Hamm and temporarily acted as the group's liaison to the resistance center in Berlin around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler . Although he was not involved in the preparations for the failed assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , Scharnagl was arrested and interned in the Dachau concentration camp . After the liberation of the camp, Scharnagl was reinstated as Lord Mayor of Munich by the US Army in May 1945. Together with Karl Meitinger , he played an important role in the historicizing reconstruction of the city center ("Scharnagl Plan") and was the initiator of the Munich Cultural Building Fund . To commemorate his plans for a traffic-relieving ring road, a section of the old town ring was named after him.
In the summer of 1945 Scharnagl was one of the leading figures in the preparation for the establishment of the CSU . At his invitation, a meeting of twelve people took place on August 14th, who discussed the possibility of founding a conservative-bourgeois party as a counterweight to the “socialist camp”. A committee was set up to prepare for the founding of the party and at a further meeting on September 12th, which is considered the actual founding meeting of the CSU, the name Bavarian Christian Social Union was decided. The nationwide, official establishment as the Christian Social Union took place on October 13th in Würzburg.
On June 6, 1946, Karl Scharnagl was confirmed in his office when he was elected mayor, but two years later he was defeated by Thomas Wimmer ( SPD ). He served as second mayor for another year and then retired in 1949.
On May 22, 1945, Scharnagl received the authorization from the US military government to rebuild the organization of the Red Cross for Bavaria. He appointed Adalbert Prince of Bavaria as its president. On June 1, 1946, he was elected honorary President of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) and on April 12, 1947 its President.
In 1948 Scharnagl was a co-founder of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate . He was a member of the Catholic student association KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich in the KV .
Karl Scharnagl died on April 6, 1963. He was buried in Munich's Ostfriedhof .
literature
- Thomas Schlemmer: Scharnagl, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 573 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Scharnagl in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manuel Limbach: Citizens against Hitler. Prehistory, structure and work of the Bavarian "Sperr-Kreis" . Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-31071-7 , pp. 257 f .
- ↑ BRK-Munich: Chronicle ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 95 kB) at www.brk-muenchen.de
- ^ Munich City Archives - Sources on the history of society. In: muenchen.de. Retrieved June 18, 2013 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scharnagl, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CSU), Lord Mayor of Munich (1925–1933 and 1945–1948) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1963 |
| Place of death | Munich |