Leo Storm

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1961 election poster

Leo Storm (born June 9, 1908 in Sonsfeld near Haldern ; † December 27, 1981 in Duisburg ) was a German economist and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Leo Storm was the tenth child of the farmer Heinrich Storm and his wife Theodora, geb. van Elten. After attending elementary school and graduating from Quirinus-Gymnasium Neuss , Storm began studying law and economics at the University of Bonn in 1931 . Here he joined the Catholic student association WKSt.V. Unitas-Salia bei .. In 1932 he moved to the University of Cologne and completed a degree in economics and social sciences, which he completed with the examination as a graduate economist and in 1938 with the dissertation from Wandererfürsorge zur Wanderordnung to Dr. rer. pole. finished.

Since 1938 he worked as an employee of the Walsum union within Thyssenschen Gas- und Wasserwerke GmbH in Duisburg-Hamborn . From 1941 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He was most recently taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1946.

Storm was entrusted with social tasks in 1946 and joined IG Bergbau in October 1947 . He returned to the service of Thyssenschen Gas- und Wasserwerke GmbH, had been an authorized representative since 1951 and finally became head of the company's social department and head of the social department of the Walsum union. From October 1952 he was an authorized signatory of the Walsum union, from October 1953 then an authorized signatory and head of the social department of the Walsumer Bergwerksgesellschaft mbH, based in Walsum .

In 1962, Leo Storm was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Cologne on December 15, 1962 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

His estate is kept in the archive for Christian-Democratic Politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung .

Political party

Storm was a member of the Center Party before 1933 . He joined the CDU in March 1946 and was chairman of the CDU district association in Duisburg from 1949 to 1969.

MP

Storm was elected to the City Council of Duisburg in 1946 and re-elected in the municipal elections in 1948, 1952, 1956, 1961, 1964 and 1969. From 1948 to 1953 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

He was a member of the German Bundestag with the 1953 Bundestag election from October 6, 1953 to October 15, 1961. In Parliament he represented the constituency Duisburg I .

Public offices

Storm became honorary district chairman for the Hamborn urban area in 1946. He served as Lord Mayor from September 1947 to November 1948 and from 1948 to 1952 and from 1956 to 1961 as Mayor of the city of Duisburg.

He was a member of the supervisory board of Duisburger Verkehrs-AG and Duisburger Tierpark AG.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 854.
  • German Bundestag (Ed.): Official manual of the German Bundestag. 2nd electoral term. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Darmstadt 1954, p. 514.
  • German Bundestag (Ed.): Official manual of the German Bundestag. 3rd electoral term. 2nd edition, NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Darmstadt 1958, p. 467.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 16th edition. Arani, Berlin 1970, p. 1292.

Web links

Commons : Leo Storm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 2 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1996, p. 301 .
  2. ↑ Storm Estate, Leo. Archive for Christian-Democratic Politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin (call number: 01-344) (PDF; 2.9 MB).
  3. ↑ City councils in Duisburg , BZ Duisburg , viewed on September 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Storm, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonsfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1981
Place of death Duisburg