Klaus Zeitler

Klaus Zeitler (born September 27, 1929 in Würzburg ) is a German politician ( SPD , REP , Würzburg List) and was Lord Mayor of Würzburg from 1968 to 1990 .

Life

Klaus Zeitler was born as the son of Max Zeitler (NSDAP, Lord Mayor of Erfurt) and grew up in Erfurt , Würzburg and Potsdam . He studied law and economics in Würzburg , Cologne and Dijon . After the state exams he was awarded a Dr. jur. doctorate and worked in various positions as a lawyer.

He is married and has three children.

Parties

Zeitler had been a member of the SPD since the 1950s. In the early 1990s he left the SPD and joined the Republicans on May 7, 1992. He justified this with the fact that "the SPD Kurt Schumacher [...], which represented the national and social interests of the Germans [...] no longer [...] exists" and that "the reunified Germany [...] ] a party that is aware of this task of representing national and social interests in a Europe of nations and regions and that acts accordingly. "

According to Zeitler, due to the authoritarian leadership style of the then REP federal chairman Franz Schönhuber , he soon left the party. However, around 1996, after Rolf Schlierer had taken over the party leadership, he rejoined and became a member of the party's national executive committee.

In 2003 he left the Republicans again and became a member of the “Würzburg List” electoral association.

Political offices

From 1956 to 1958 Zeitler was a member of the Würzburg city council. From 1968 to 1990 he was the successor to Helmuth Zimmerer Lord Mayor of Würzburg. From 1982 to 1990 he was also a member of the Bavarian Senate , and from 1975 to 1990 he was chairman of the DPWV -Landesverband Bayern. In 1990 he did not stand for re-election and Jürgen Weber , who had been second mayor until then , became his successor.

In the local elections in 1996, he returned to the Würzburg city council as a Republican candidate. In 2002 he was re-elected, again for the Republicans. Since changing party in 2003, he has been a member of the Würzburg List parliamentary group on the city council, for which he was re-elected in 2008. At the end of his six-year mandate, he resigned from the city council on April 30, 2014.

Web links

• Klaus Zeitler in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Honors

• 1978: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1984: Honorary citizen of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
• 1986: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 219, November 21, 1978.
2. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the University ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 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.