Lorenz Diehl

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Lorenz Diehl (born February 19, 1871 in Kastel near Mainz , † May 17, 1948 in Mainz) was a German politician of the Center Party and the CDU .

Life

The trained businessman Diehl founded a stationery and bookstore business together with his wife Marie Elisabeth in 1900. He also worked as a journalist in the newspapers Mainzer Anzeiger and Mainzer Journal. He joined the editorial team of the latter in 1906. Around 1905 he founded a non-profit housing association in Kastel with the aim of obtaining inexpensive apartments on former imperial grounds. In 1919 he succeeded in founding the Ketteler building association, which he chaired until his death. Construction of the first houses began in 1924. A total of 144 apartments and eight private homes had been built by 1933. After the National Socialists came to power, Diehl received no further construction loans as a member of the Center Party of Hesse .

politics

As early as 1907, Diel was elected General Secretary of the Center Party in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . After the end of the First World War, Diehl was elected to the Mainz city council, of which he was a member until 1948 - with an interruption during the period of National Socialism . From 1931 to 1933 and again from 1946 he was parliamentary group leader of the Christian Social People's Party. His appointment to the Hessian state parliament in 1933 remained almost insignificant, since due to the Synchronization Act of March 5, 1933, the state parliament only met for one session before its final end on October 26, 1933. During the time of National Socialism, Diehl was imprisoned again and again, including in 1944 during the Gewitter campaign .

On Diehl's initiative, a new party with the name “Center - Christian Social People's Party” was founded in Mainz at the end of June 1945, on the basis of the old Center Party. Since the French occupying power pushed for the unification of politically like-minded groups, it was finally agreed to join forces with the CDU. Diehl took over the chairmanship of the CDU in Rheinhessen until April 1947. In 1948 he was elected honorary chairman of the Rheinhessen CDU. He belonged to the advisory state assembly of Rhineland-Palatinate , a predecessor of the state parliament.

The devout Catholic died on May 17, 1948 at the age of 76.

Honors

  • 1925: Awarded the papal order " Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice "
  • 1958: On September 18, 1958, a street in Mainz was named after him

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 107.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 138.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 86.
  • The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 , 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 142–143 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The initiator. In: Chronicle, published by the non-profit Ketteler-Bauverein eG., Mainz 1994, p. 7f.
  2. ^ Fritz Lahr: Memory of Lorenz Diehl. In: 75 Jahre Gemeinnütziger Ketteler-Bauverein eG, Mainz 1919–1994 (Mainz, 1994), pp. 47–53.
  3. ↑ Günther letter: Lorenz Diehl. In: Christian Democrats against Hitler (Freiburg: Herder, 2004), p. 120, ISBN 3-451-20805-9
  4. ^ Anne Martin: The emergence of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate , (Mainz, 1995).
  5. ↑ Stadtarchiv Mainz , Az. 471210 Tgb. No. 2806/13
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz-Kastel
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1948
Place of death Mainz