Ludwig Preiss

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Ludwig Preiß (born July 25, 1910 in Leidenhofen , † May 14, 1996 in Ebsdorfergrund ) was a German politician ( FDP , FVP , DP , CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Preiss, who was of Protestant faith, studied agriculture and forestry as well as law and political science in Giessen and Göttingen . In 1933 he joined the SS and in 1934 the SA, even before he graduated in 1935 with a degree in agricultural economics. Two years later he received his doctorate in political science. He worked as an assistant at the Institute for Agriculture and Economic Policy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 1939 he switched to the economics department of IG Farben in Berlin as an agricultural officer . In the same year, however, he was drafted into military service and remained a soldier until 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , Preiss initially took over the business of his in-laws in the Soviet occupation zone . When this was expropriated, he went with his family to Hesse , where he ran his father's farm in his birthplace, Leidenhofen . Preiß was a co-founder of the Hessian country folk high school in Neustadt. In 1950 he became chairman of the district farmers' association for Marburg and Kirchhain .

Political party

After the war, Preiss initially joined the FDP. After the coalition change of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP from the CDU to the SPD, he left the party on February 23, 1956 together with the ministerial wing and took part in the founding of the Free People's Party, which joined the DP at the beginning of 1957. In the DP he was the deputy chairman of the state of Hesse. After the merger of the DP with the GB / BHE to form GDP , he joined the CDU in the summer of 1960.

MP

Preiß was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1961 and again from November 24, 1964, when he replaced the late Heinrich von Brentano , until 1972. There he represented the constituency of Marburg in 1949 and 1953 for the FDP, in 1957 for the DP and again in 1965 for the CDU as a directly elected member of parliament . In 1969 he entered the Bundestag via the state list of the Hessian CDU.

From 1957 until he left the German Party in 1960 he was deputy chairman of the DP parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for burden sharing .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. John Gimbel: A German city under American occupation. Marburg 1945-1952 , Cologne 1964, p. 217.
  2. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 111, June 16, 1973.