Otto Gönnenwein
Richard Otto Gönnenwein (born May 16, 1896 in Heilbronn ; † January 9, 1963 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer , university professor and politician ( FDP / DVP ).
Life and work
Gönnenwein studied philosophy, history, economics and law at the universities in Tübingen and Heidelberg . After working with Eberhard Gothein at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1917 with the work Württemberg and the unification of the German railway system as a Dr. phil. had received his doctorate, he finished his studies in 1919 with the first and in 1921 with the second state examination. He then entered the state service in Württemberg and worked in the district office in Heilbronn . It was established in 1940 at the University of Tübingen with the workThe freedom of river navigation to the Dr. jur. PhD and then worked as a lecturer.
Gönnenwein completed his habilitation in 1946 at Heidelberg University, where he became full professor of German legal history and public law in 1949. From 1952 to 1963 he was director of studies at the Administration and Business Academy (VWA) Württemberg .
politics
Gönnenwein served as Lord Mayor of Schwenningen from 1930 to 1948 . The "efforts of the Gauleitung Württemberg-Hohenzollern and the party chancellery of the NSDAP , who (at the time 'accidentally' not retired as a Freemason ) [...] who was appointed mayor of Schwenningen for life [...] to remove from his office" failed because In 1944, the Reich Ministry of the Interior saw no legal path for “a transfer” or for “a takeover in the Reich service because of membership in a lodge”.
After the Second World War , Gönnenwein joined the DVP in Württemberg-Baden , which was absorbed into the state association of the FDP / DVP in Baden-Württemberg in 1952 . From 1950 to 1952 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden and from 1952/53 a member of the state constitutional assembly of Baden-Württemberg. He was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from 1953 until his death. Here he was from 1953 to 1956 chairman of the FDP / DVP parliamentary group. In 1954/55 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee .
Honors
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1954: Full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- Otto-Gönnenwein-Strasse in Villingen-Schwenningen
Fonts
- Württemberg and the standardization of the German railway system , phil. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1917.
- The freedom of river navigation , jur. Diss., Tübingen 1940.
- The legal history of Lake Constance up to the Thirty Years War , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 69th year 1949/50, pp. 27-61 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Joachim Schäfer: Otto Gönnenwein May 16, 1896 - January 9, 1963. Administrator, politician, legal scholar. Shaker, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8440-2344-2 (jur. Diss. Univ. Heidelberg, 2013 table of contents , content ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Gönnenwein in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Heiber: files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Regesten, Volume 2, 1983, p. 10003, Regest 27864.
Wolfgang Haußmann (1952–1953) | Otto Gönnenwein (1953–1956) | Eduard Leuze (1956–1960) | Walter Nischwitz (1960–1964) | Friedrich Stock (1964–1968) | Eduard Leuze (1968–1969) | Johann Peter Brandenburg (1969–1976) | Jürgen Morlok (1976–1984) | Hinrich Enderlein (1985–1988) | Walter Döring (1988–1996) | Ernst Pfister (1996-2004) | Ulrich Noll (2004–2009) | Hans-Ulrich Rülke (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gönnenwein, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gönnenwein, Richard Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, university professor and politician (FDP / DVP), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1963 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |