Max Grunbeck

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Max Grünbeck (born February 18, 1907 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt , † February 29, 1984 in Friedrichshafen ) was a German diplomat and politician. He was the mayor and lord mayor of the city of Friedrichshafen.

Life

After graduating from the Gottlieb-Daimler-Gymnasium in 1926 he studied at the University of Munich and laid in 1930 the exam to graduate in economics from. In 1934 he earned his doctoral thesis to the Press Britain's doctorate . During his employment in the press office for foreign trade at the Foreign Office , he wrote a collective work on foreign exchange law in the world . After his successful career in the trade policy department, he was appointed head of the general economics and finance department and finally transferred to the diplomatic service. From September 1, 1933, he was a member of the SS . After the membership ban of the NSDAP was relaxed , he was able to join the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 . Nothing is known about its denazification .

The later Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger , who had worked with Grünbeck in the Foreign Office, proposed Grünbeck to the Friedrichshafen CDU as a candidate for the mayoral election on December 5, 1948. But since the incumbent mayor Mauch wanted to run again himself, Grünbeck was nominated by the Free Voters' Association. In the election, he finally received 72.34% of the vote, Mauch on the other hand only 17.04%, the SPD candidate Reinhold Hoffmann even only 10.62%. However, the establishment was delayed due to an objection by the French occupiers until January 13, 1949. In 1951, together with the elevation of Friedrichshafen to a city ​​in the immediate vicinity, he became mayor. In addition to his mayor's office, he had numerous other tasks to look after. Since the city had invested in industrial companies by transferring the Zeppelin Foundation , the mayor was also chairman of the supervisory board of these companies. In addition, he was deputy chairman of the district council of the Tettnang district and later also of the Lake Constance district , which Grünbeck had helped initiate. He was also a member of several regional planning committees in the areas of Lake Constance , Upper Swabia and Allgäu . In 1977 Max Grünbeck resigned after his 28-year term in office. His successor was the CDU candidate Martin Herzog .

Act

Max Grünbeck's first important task as mayor was clearing the ruins of Friedrichshafen, which was bombed in World War II. The old town was particularly hard hit. In addition, public facilities and, above all, residential buildings had to be created as the population increased rapidly in the post-war years. He was involved in the revival of the Fasnet , whose first parade took place in February 1949, and in the creation of the sea ​​hare festival . In 1950 the first International Lake Constance Fair (IBO) took place. Another major concern of Grünbeck was the establishment of educational institutions (Schreiesch-Schule 1954, Ludwig-Dürr-Schule 1954, vocational school 1957). A big step in the reconstruction was the construction of the new town hall according to plans by Wilhelm Tiedje and Ludwig Hilmar Kresse , who were the winners of the 1953 competition.

Furthermore, Max Grünbeck was jointly responsible for the conclusion of the town twinning agreements with Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1972, with Saint-Dié (France) in 1973 and with Peoria (Illinois, USA) in 1975. During his tenure there were repeated disputes over the assets of the Zeppelin Foundation. Hugo Eckener , Karl Maybach and Claude Dornier in particular protested in 1950 against the transfer of the property to the city and therefore briefly renounced honorary citizenship. In 1952 a historical compromise was reached, whereupon Eckener, Maybach and Dornier accepted their rights again.

Honors

Honorary citizen

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
  • Fritz Maier: Friedrichshafen. Vol. 3: City history (s). Memories of the day before yesterday and yesterday. From the post-war period to the beginning of the 21st century. Gessler-Verlag, Friedrichshafen 2004, ISBN 3-861360-85-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  2. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 179.
personal data
SURNAME Grünbeck, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and Lord Mayor of Friedrichshafen (1949–1977)
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart-Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1984
Place of death Friedrichshafen