Leopold Graf

Leopold Graf (born March 30, 1904 in Stockach ; † April 30, 1987 ) was a German local politician ( CDU ).

Life

After elementary school, Graf completed an apprenticeship as a model fitter at Fahr in Stockach. In 1926 he went on a hike and the following year he became secretary of the Catholic workers' associations in Mannheim and head of the legal information office of the Catholic People's Office. After the office closed in 1935, he was an insurance agent before becoming an insurance district service manager in 1938. From 1940 to 1945 he did military service.

He had already become a member of the Windthorstbund in 1922 and was a district councilor in 1930 and Mannheim city councilor for the center from 1932 to 1933 . After the end of the Second World War , Graf was a co-founder of the CDU in Mannheim. From 1948 to 1955 he was a city councilor. On July 19, 1955, he was elected full-time alderman for housing, utilities and health care. He remained in office until July 1961, when he retired.

Graf was co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board of the non-profit building company Familienheim Mannheim and from March 1958 chairman of the Volksbund war graves welfare in Mannheim. Since 1946 he was a member of the executive board of Mannheimer Caritas and from 1955 to 1972 he was a member of the church tax committee of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Honors

In 1969 he was the first in North Baden for his decades of meritorious work in numerous church organizations and associations by Pope Paul VI. appointed Knight of the New Year's Eve . In 1974 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the house at Am Brunnengarten 5 and the building with a day care center and apartments for the elderly was named Leopold-Graf-Haus .

literature

• Wolfgang Brach: The Mannheim City Council 1945–1984 . Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-87804-162-4 .

Web links

• Chronicle of the city of Mannheim , Leopold Graf