Max Gauss

Max Gauß (born February 24, 1868 in Justingen , † February 5, 1931 in Heilbronn ) was a German Catholic priest, teacher and politician ( center ). From 1923 until his death he was a member of the Heilbronn municipal council , and from 1924 a member of the state parliament of the Free People's State of Württemberg .

Life

Gauss came from Justingen, where relatives ran the Gasthaus Krone . He studied Catholic theology in Tübingen and was ordained a priest on October 1, 1895 .

From 1895 he was vicar and chaplain in Heilbronn, where he co-founded the Catholic Workers' Association and the Catholic Association Unitas and also served as praeses for both . In 1902 he became the first parish administrator of the newly established pastoral care district in the Heilbronn neighboring community of Böckingen with the Church of St. Kilian . On November 16, 1903, the new Catholic Joseph Chaplaincy in Heilbronn , under the patronage of the Württemberg crown, was occupied with him. From 5 November 1917 to 1926 he was a full-time teacher of religion at Karlsgymnasium , most recently as teacher .

On December 10, 1922, he was elected to the Heilbronn municipal council, of which he was a member from January 25, 1923 until his death. In the local council, among other things, on March 11, 1926, he recommended the Heilbronner Stadttheater a better selection of plays; The happy vineyard of Carl Zuckmayer had a "direct immoral tendency." On December 18, 1930, he suggested that the city plays such as disease of the youth of Ferdinand Bruckner not to give what came in the body widely rejected.

In the 1924 state election, Gauss ran for the Center Party, but initially did not win a seat. A decision of the Württemberg State Court of 6 October 1924 led to the revocation of the mandate of the Mergentheim Center MP Adam Müller , for whom Gauss joined the state parliament on 21 October from the Heilbronn district list of the Center Party. On January 16, 1928, the Center Party of the Heilbronn district set him up as their top candidate for the upcoming state elections, he was re-elected on May 20, 1928 and was a member of the state parliament until his death on February 5, 1931. Gauss was buried in his home town of Justingen. Johann Kuhn took his place in the state parliament .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elisabeth Sommer: The "Krone" is now history . In: Ehinger Tagblatt . August 6, 2012 ( from swp.de [accessed December 31, 2012]).
2. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives , Contemporary History Collection, signature ZS-10119, entry on Max Gauß in the HEUSS database (accessed on December 31, 2012)
3. ^ Alfred Kolbeck (edit.): 350 years of high school in Heilbronn. Festschrift for the anniversary of the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1971 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 17), DNB 740698761 , p. 154
4. ↑ Quoted from Friedrich Dürr: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn. Volume III (see literature), p. 229

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 248 .
• Friedrich Dürr : Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume II: 1896-1921. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, DNB  870345052 , p. 65, 235 ( Publications of the Archives of the City of Heilbronn . Volume 28. - Unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1922).
• Friedrich Dürr , Karl Wulle, Willy Dürr, Helmut Schmolz, Werner Föll: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume III: 1922-1933. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, DNB  870345036 , p. 55, 229, 326, 345, 503, 514, 660 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 29).