Ludwig Maria Florian
Ludwig Maria Florian (born January 18, 1900 in Neustadt ; † December 16, 1973 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German administrative officer and local politician (CDU).
Life
Ludwig Florian studied economics in Münster and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He was a soldier in World War II.
In 1945 he became managing director of the IHK Frankfurt am Main and played a key role in the establishment of the IHK together with the American-appointed President Alfred Petersen . He was then head of department in the Hessian Ministry of Economics and State Commissioner. From 1947 to 1952 Florian was the administrator of Mitteldeutsche Creditbank , the Hessian branch group of the decentralized Commerzbank. In this role he oversaw the implementation of the major banking reform. From 1953 to 1965 he was police vice president in Frankfurt am Main and disaster control officer for the urban area of Frankfurt.
In 1948 he became a city councilor in the Frankfurt city council and deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 1948 to 1952. From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the CDU district association, succeeding Jakob Husch / Peter Horn .
Florian had been a member of the WKSt.V. since 1919 . Unitas Winfridia Munster . In 1948 he was elected chairman of the Union of Scientific Catholic Student Associations UNITAS in St. Augustin ; under his aegis, the Unitas Association was able to be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War.
In 1969 Florian was elected President of the Catholic German Academic Association KDA , an association with around 66,000 members. His successor was Lothar Bossle in 1972 .
In 1954 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in the Freiburg Minster on May 9, 1954 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .
Honors
- Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
- Papal Order of Saint Gregory the Great
- Plaque of Honor of the City of Frankfurt am Main (1965)
- Honorary Senior of the Unitas Association (1973)
Fonts
- The social welfare of war victims and war survivors: with special consideration of the conditions of the Reg.-Bez. Cassel , 1924
- Asset freeze and asset control , economic customer service 1946
- 95 years of Mitteldeutsche Creditbank: 1856 - 1951; a review , Mitteldeutsche Creditbank Frankfurt / Main, 1951
literature
- Albert Oeckl: Pocket Book of Public Life, Volumes 28-30 , Festland Verlag 1980
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 . P. 215
- Who's who in the Catholic World, Volume 1 , Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company 1967
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The Frankfurt CDU since 1945: Milestones on the way to a modern city party" , CDU, accessed on August 19, 2013
- ^ Heinrich Rüschenschmidt: "Foundation and Beginnings of the CDU in Hesse", Volumes 42–43, Darmstadt 1981, p. 476
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Florian, Ludwig Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and local politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th December 1973 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |