Ludwig Volkholz

Ludwig Volkholz (called Jager-Wiggerl ; born as Ludwig Karlstetter ; born March 1, 1919 in Würzburg ; † May 20, 1994 in Grafenwiesen ) was a German politician of the Bavarian Party , at times the FDP and the CBV he founded

Life

Volkholz was born out of wedlock as the son of a maid, only at the age of 8 he got the name Volkholz through the marriage of his mother. He grew up in Passau. After graduating from secondary school, Volkholz attended forestry school and from 1935 worked in the higher forest service. From 1939 he took part in the Second World War (last rank: captain ).

After the war, Volkholz became the state forester in Watzlsteg . In 1949 he was elected to the Bundestag , in 1950 he was also elected to the Bavarian state parliament .

Volkholz was one of the five MPs to whom the Bundestag recommended resigning from office in July 1951 after the committee of inquiry had negotiated the allocation and use of industrial monies. However, he did not follow the recommendation. Due to the aggressive wording of a speech he had given on July 8, 1951 in Zwiesel , the Bavarian state parliament decided to take action against him. The state parliament and the Bundestag lifted his immunity in January 1952, and the public prosecutor's office issued an arrest warrant for the now-fugitive for inciting the witness my oath and other offenses. On January 19, 1952, he was arrested near Reutte in the Austrian border area and taken to Innsbruck . However, Austria did not extradite him, but released him on bail. When his residence permit expired at the end of July 1952, he had to leave Austria and was arrested when crossing the border. In January 1954 he was sentenced to ten months in prison for inciting perjury before the Deggendorf district court .

In the small and poor district of Kötzting , the Jager-Wiggerl was still (or perhaps because of that) a local hero against the overpowering Munich establishment. However, due to his previous conviction, he was no longer allowed to run for the state parliament. Instead, his wife Paula ran for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the state elections in 1958. The Liberals, who were practically non-existent in the Kötzting district up to that point, profited considerably from the Volkholz name. Paula Volkholz did not make it to the state parliament, but achieved one of the best results in the Kötzting constituency with 18.7% . The Jager-Wiggerl himself became mayor of Voggendorf . The renewed candidacy in 1966 prevented a new municipal election law , so his wife Paula stood again as a candidate for the Lower Bavarian Farmers and Medium-Sized Business Association , which was founded before the state elections in 1962 , and became mayor. The local council appointed Volkholz - against the bitter resistance of the state government, which unsuccessfully challenged the decision in court - an honorary citizen and gave him the office of community clerk.

A new goal was the office of district administrator of Kötzting, but the previous incumbent Nemmer (CSU) successfully doubted Volkholz's eligibility because of his previous conviction of 1954. So his wife Paula had to step into the breach again. She was elected for Nemmer on March 8, 1970 with 8,354 votes against 7,333 votes, making her the first district administrator in Bavaria. Volkholz himself was now active in the wine wholesaling business and had been trying unsuccessfully since November 1971 to resume his proceedings from 1954.

In the last years of his life, Volkholz was no longer politically active, his health impaired by a stroke.

Political party

In 1947 Volkholz became a member of the Bavarian Party , for which he became a member of the Bundestag in 1949 . In 1950 he was also elected to the Bavarian state parliament.

Within the BP, he belonged to the group around Joseph Baumgartner , Ludwig Lallinger , Jakob Fischbacher and Ernst Falkner , who were opposed to the CSU in principle .

In November 1953 he was expelled from the BP parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament, and a little later from the party. In the following period he belonged to the FDP for some time, which, however, excluded him from its ranks because of behavior that was harmful to the party. After the state elections in 1966, Volkholz was re-accepted into the BP as a "patriot and politically persecuted man" and quickly became district chairman in Lower Bavaria and parliamentary group leader in the district council . After renewed disputes with BP, Volkholz left the party again in 1975 and founded the Christian Bavarian People's Party (CBV), which was only successful in his closer local environment. In December 1988 the CBV was reintegrated into BP. Ludwig Volkholz also became a member of the Bavarian Party again.

MP

Ludwig Volkholz was a member of the first German Bundestag from 1949 to 1953 and the Bavarian State Parliament from 1950 to 1954. He was directly elected to the Bundestag in the constituency of Deggendorf with 35.5% of the valid votes cast.

literature

• Andreas Eichmüller: The Jagerwiggerl . Publishing house of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ISBN 3-931904-11-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Volkholz in the catalog of the German National Library