Lorenz Brandl

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Lorenz Brandl (born August 8, 1882 in Steineck ; † July 18, 1955 in Trostberg ) was mayor of the Stein an der Traun community and active founder of the Traunreut community .

Life

Brandl's tailor father von Steineck was the youngest of five children of the farmers Helene (née Wichtlhuber) and Johann Brandl. He had two siblings from his father's first marriage. At the age of 22 he took over the “Schneider” farm from his father Johann and married the farmer's daughter Therese Dieplinger on October 28, 1907, with whom he had seven children, two of whom died at an early age. In 1912 he was elected to the community committee in Stein an der Traun . After his return from the First World War in 1918, he became a member of the local council again and was the local treasurer until 1927. Before and during the war years between 1933 and 1945 he was mayor of the Stein an der Traun community for the first time. During the Second World War he lost two of his four sons, Johann and Georg. His son Johann was missing since 1944 and years later was finally pronounced dead. After the war, he handed over his farm in Steineck to his eldest son Lorenz, which is still owned by the family today. In 1948, at the age of 70, Lorenz Brandl was again elected 1st Mayor of the Stein an der Traun community with 894 of 927 votes . In the same year his wife Therese died. Lorenz Brandl died on July 18, 1955, still in the office of mayor, in Trostberg hospital .

Foundation of the Traunreut community

Lorenz Brandl was one of the most important figures with regard to the founding of the Traunreut community in 1950. Today, little reminds of the popular Steiner mayor, he is only mentioned in a few sentences in books. Only Lorenz-Brandl-Straße in Traunreut still bears witness to the man who campaigned for a church to be planted. He implemented this project together with his secretary Georg Pöschl. They wanted the ammunition plant at that time (Muna / Heeres-Munitionsanstalt St. Georgen) , which was built in 1938 by the Wehrmacht in St. Georgs Forest, to become a real community, because detoxification work began here as early as 1948, whereby people and businesses settled there. The district office rejected the plan to found a community , but Brandl did not abandon the plan and went to the government in Munich to present the idea, and there they agreed with him.

After the approval of the government and the request to the district office to join the project, things got moving. The secretary Georg Pöschl was busy because the district office wanted precise tables and information about the inhabitants of the future municipality. After two years of work, only one name was missing. A community meeting was called at which various suggestions for the name of the new community were received, e.g. B. Georgenstadt, Neu-St. Georgen, refugee town, refugee community, an agreement was reached on Traunreut, this is derived from the Traun and the clearing . The request was passed on to the government; the latter wanted Traunreuth to be written with an “h” at the end, but the founding fathers refused. On October 1, 1950, the Traunreut community was finally founded. Lorenz Brandl initially acted in addition to his work as the head of the municipality in Stein as the acting mayor of Traunreut. On January 7, 1951, Karl Löppen replaced Lorenz Brandl as mayor .

Achievements

That Traunreut and also Stein / St. Georgen Lorenz Brandl has a lot to thank for, can be read in a few old documents and newspaper clippings. The Trostberger Tagblatt reported in August 1952: “During the period of office 1948–1952 he made special merits by expanding a fourth classroom in the local elementary school (1948) and by purchasing new church bells in the parish church of St. Georgen and for the branch church in Irsing in 1950. Thanks to his initiative, the makeshift elementary school in the ehm. Muna St. Georgen in building N 18 expanded. It is thanks to his efforts that the former Muna was raised to the status of an independent community in Traunreut [...] "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. In: www.stein-st-georgen-web.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Online catalog of the university library of the LMU Munich. In: opac.ub.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Lorenz-Brandl-Str., Traunreut city map - meinestadt.de. In: www.meinestadt.de. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Scholz: City of Traunreut - Mayor of the City of Traunreut since 1950. In: www.traunreut.de. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brandl, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Steineck
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1955
Place of death Trostberg