Max Zwicknagl

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Max Zwicknagl (born July 6, 1900 in Rott am Inn ; † January 10, 1969 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( BVP , CSU ).

Life

Max Zwicknagl was a son of the District Court Doctor, Senior Medical Officer Dr. Max Zwicknagl and his wife Anna. Anna's father was Georg Kaiser, owner of a brewery and an estate in Rott.

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Ettal Abbey , Zwicknagl began studying economics in Munich and Würzburg , which he completed in 1924 with a doctorate. Since 1921 he was a member of the KDSt.V. Rheno-Franconia Munich. From 1924 to 1926 he was in-house counsel for the BVP's economic advisory board and, in 1926/27, managing director of the German-Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Vienna . In 1928 he took over the grandparents' brewery and the estate in Rott am Inn. In 1939/40 and 1944/45 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier , most recently as a non-commissioned officer.

In 1952/53, Zwicknagl was the head of the Department for Special Supply Tasks (DbV) in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests . From 1956 to 1962 he was the German consul in Innsbruck . In 1928 he married Ilse Klöckner (1905–1985) from Hamburg. The three daughters Marianne (1930–1984), Brigitte (born 1931) and Renate (born 1944) emerged from this marriage. In 1957, Marianne married the later CSU chairman and Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss .

Zwicknagl was a member of the BVP during the Weimar Republic . After the end of the war he was a co-founder of the CSU in Wasserburg am Inn .

Zwicknagl was a member of the district council of Wasserburg am Inn and had been chairman of the CSU parliamentary group there since 1946. He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from December 1946 to March 1948 and was a member of the Economic Council of the United Economic Area in 1948/49 .

Honors

On December 15, 1959, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit ; in the publication of the State Gazette, the activity as consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Innsbruck is mentioned.