Oskar Munzinger
Oskar Munzinger (born February 20, 1911 in Rosenkopf ; † September 6, 1983 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school, Munzinger began studying theology and law, which he completed with the state examination in law. From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After the end of the war he worked as a lawyer in Marburg . Since 1956 he worked in the same position in Kaiserslautern .
Munzinger was a member of the SPD from 1950.
MP
On April 20, 1959, Munzinger entered the German Bundestag for the late MP Anton Diel via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list . After his election as mayor of Zweibrücken, he resigned his parliamentary mandate on October 1, 1959. From 1963 to 1975 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , where he was chairman in 1969/70 and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1971 to 1975.
Public offices
Munzinger served as Lord Mayor of Zweibrücken from 1959 to 1969 .
Act
Munzinger Express
Since Munzinger was both mayor of Zweibrücken and member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1963, he was interested in creating train connections between his two workplaces without changing trains. For him this was at least an occasion to campaign for the establishment of a continuous connection to Mainz . Above all, however, this was intended to revitalize the Glantalbahn and prevent further dismantling after the northern section between Odernheim and Bad Münster had already been shut down in 1961 and was completely dismantled in the two following years and the southern section Homburg - Glan-Münchweiler was threatened with closure .
The shortest possible connection between Mainz and Zweibrücken had long since lost its importance. Both on the Glantalbahn and on the adjoining Homburg – Zweibrücken railway line, the second track had already been dismantled after the Second World War. For the decline, however, it was crucial that both routes crossed the border between Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland and their junction was in Homburg in Saarland. Zweibrücken, largely cut off from the main settlement areas in Rhineland-Palatinate, was the only larger town in the southern part of the route belonging to Rhineland-Palatinate. However, the economic orientation of the previously partially autonomous Saar area towards France , which continued until 1959 , had led to a shift in traffic flows, and even the already sparsely populated Northwest Palatinate increasingly oriented itself towards Kaiserslautern .
In 1965 it was actually possible to set up a pair of express trains. Because the Odernheim – Bad Münster section of the route had already been dismantled, Staudernheim had to be approached first; there the direction of travel had to be changed. The Nahe Valley Railway followed as far as Bad Kreuznach , then the Gau Algesheim – Bad Kreuznach railway line and finally the Left Rhine Line . Due to Munzinger's commitment, these trains were popularly known as the “Munzinger Express”, which he himself used as a passenger. In 1967 a second couple was added between Homburg and Gau Algesheim. From 1970 these connections were officially only local trains before they were completely discontinued in 1979. In the following decades the Glantalbahn was shut down , except for a short section, which was also part of the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line . Only a short section of the Homburg – Zweibrücken railway remained on the Landau – Rohrbach railway . Since then, Zweibrücken can only be reached by train from the west (from Saarbrücken ) and from the east (from Landau ).
Munzinger Hill
Since the car traffic increased sharply during Munzinger's tenure as Lord Mayor, the level crossings in the streets in the districts of Bubenhausen and Ixheim in the area of the Zweibrücken main station increasingly appeared to be an obstacle due to the numerous station tracks at the time. For this reason Munzinger arranged to replace this with an overpass structure, which was finally implemented in the late 1960s. In the vernacular, the latter was therefore often referred to as "Munzingerhügel".
Honors
- 1970: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1975: Large Federal Cross of Merit
literature
- Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 55 .
- ↑ lok-report.de: 100 years Glantalbahn . Retrieved November 12, 2013 .
- ↑ a b bahnhof-homburg.de: From the environment; Train stations and track systems around Homburg . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 30, 2013 ; accessed on December 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 60 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 64 .
Eugen Hertel (1947–1959) | Otto Schmidt (1959–1967) | Hans König (1967–1969) | Oskar Munzinger (1969–1970) | Jockel Fuchs (1970–1971) | Wilhelm Dröscher (1971–1975) | Karl Thorwirth (1976–1979) | Werner Klein (1979–1983) | Hugo Brandt (1983–1985) | Rudolf Scharping (1985–1991) | Kurt Beck (1991-1994) | Joachim Mertes (1994-2006) | Jochen Hartloff (2006–2011) | Hendrik Hering (2011–2014) | Alexander Schweitzer (since 2014)
Karl Ernst Collofong (1932–1945) | Ignaz Roth (1945–1959) | Oskar Munzinger (1959–1969) | Helmut Fichtner (1969–1979) | Werner von Blon (1980–1993) | Hans Otto Streuber (1993–1999) | Jürgen Lambert (1999-2004) | Helmut Reichling (2004–2012) | Kurt Pirmann (2012–2018) | Marold Wosnitza (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Munzinger, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdB, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rose head |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1983 |
| Place of death | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |