Leopold Lerch

Leopold Lerch (born November 12, 1898 in Passau - Innstadt , † August 16, 1964 in Passau) was a German politician of the BVP and the CSU .

Lerch attended elementary school and grammar school in Passau, studied philosophy and theology at the University of Passau and was a gunner and officer in the First World War . He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1923 . After working as a cooperator in Haiming , Oberkreuzberg and Vilshofen an der Donau , he switched to the profession of religion teacher. He initially taught at the Oberrealschule Passau, in 1937 he switched to the local grammar school , where he was appointed senior teacher in 1953. During the Second World War he worked as a hospital pastor in Passau. After the end of the war he took on other functions, for example, parallel to his work as a high school teacher, he was also director of a Passau study seminar. In 1948 he became President of the Catholic Werkvolks Passau, a year later he was appointed Episcopal Spiritual Council .

Lerch belonged to the Bavarian People's Party from 1923 to 1933, in which he acted as a speaker. In 1946 he joined the CSU, the successor party to the BVP. He was a member of the board of the CSU city association in Passau. In 1956 he was elected to the city council for the first time, and for a while he sat there before the CSU parliamentary group. On February 10, 1958, he replaced the late Karl Bickleder in the Bavarian state parliament . In the new elections in the same year he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Passau City and State , which was confirmed in the 1962 elections. Lerch was a member of the state parliament, in which he chaired the committee for cultural policy issues from 1960 until his death. His successor was Josef Reichl .

Web links

• Leopold Lerch in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History