Ludwig Schnur

Ludwig Schnur (1973)

Ludwig cord , popularly known as "de Fissääl Loui" called (* 11. July 1909 in Mühlfeld, now part of the community Nonnweiler ; † 10. January 1997 in Püttlingen ) was a German politician ( CVP , 1959 CDU ). From 1955 to 1980 he was a member of the Saarland state parliament , from 1975 its president and from 1959 to 1974 minister in the Saarland government .

Life

Ludwig Schnur came from a working-class family in Saarland, his father was a machine attendant. After graduating from high school in 1935, he completed a two-year traineeship at the Saarbrücker Zeitung . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was an active soldier until the end of the Second World War (from 1942 as an officer). After the war ended in 1945 he was a prisoner of war for a short time . After his release from captivity, Schnur became the head of the housing department of the Friedrichsthal community (Saar) and was mayor of the community from 1946 to 1955 . From 1951 to 1955 he held the honorary position of the deputy chairman of the Saarland City and Municipal Council.

Schnur was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit on July 10, 1975 . He had been married to Maria Schu since 1940, the father of two daughters, and lived with his family in Friedrichsthal, Saarbrücken , Kleinblittersdorf and Püttlingen. After his death he was buried in Püttlingen.

Member of the state parliament

In the state election on December 18, 1955 , Schnur was elected as a member of the CVP in the Saarland state parliament and was a member of this until the end of the 7th electoral period on May 20, 1980. On August 2, 1957, the CVP faction in the state parliament renamed itself the CSU faction; on April 19, 1959, the CSU parliamentary group joined the CDU parliamentary group. From July 14, 1975 to May 20, 1980, Schnur was President of the Saarland State Parliament for the 7th electoral period. As the oldest member of the state parliament, he would also have been given the post of old-age president , but because of his candidacy as state parliament president , he renounced the office.

Member of the state government

On February 26, 1959, Ludwig Schnur - still a CVP member until April 19, 1959, then a member of the CDU - joined the Saarland government ( Reinert II cabinet ). Until July 19, 1965 he served as Minister for Public Works and Housing. From January 17, 1961 , Schnur was also Minister of the Interior , an office he held until he left the Röder IV government on December 19, 1973. From February 9, 1960 to January 17, 1961, Schnur also served as Minister of Finance and Forests in the Röder I cabinet .

During his tenure as Minister of the Interior, among other things, he was responsible for the ban on a federal party congress of the NPD in Saarbrücken in 1969 and implemented a comprehensive regional and administrative reform in Saarland , which came into force on January 1, 1974. Against considerable local resistance, Schnur pushed through the reform and made a name for himself among the population as the “father of local reform”. In 1969 and 1970 Schnur held the rotating chairmanship of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers and Senators of the Länder .

As a member of the Saarland state government, Schnur was also a member of the Federal Council - from March 4, 1959 to July 14, 1970 as a deputy, then until January 23, 1974 as a full member . From December 21, 1962 to December 22, 1966, he served there as chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs .

literature

• Schnur, Ludwig: What we want - local political work program of the regional association of the CDU. Speech at the state party convention of the CDU in 1968 in Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken: CDU regional association Saar, 1968. 40 pp.
• Meiser, Gerd: He was the father of the regional reform - former Saar Interior Minister Ludwig Schnur (CDU) is dead. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of January 13, 1997, p. 2.

Web links

• Ludwig Schnur on saarland-biografien.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ "Fissääl" stands for "cord" in Saarland dialect, Loui for Ludwig.
2. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 34 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken July 11, 1975, p. 870 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).
3. ↑ Toughest use. In: Der Spiegel No. 48/1969. November 24, 1969, pp. 36-41 , accessed January 29, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Norbert Weiter: "Moderate Concept". In: The time. January 18, 1974. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .