Paul Alfred Rapp

Paul Alfred Rapp (born February 9, 1933 in Mannheim-Feudenheim ; † July 25, 2011 in Mannheim ) was a German graduate economist , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit and the Conrad Medal of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . As a local politician, he was a member of the Mannheim City Council from 1975 to 1994 .

Life

Alfred Rapp was born in Mannheim-Feudenheim in 1933 as the son of the bricklayer Paul Rapp and his wife Hedwig Rapp (née Geier) on Scharnhorststrasse. From 1939 to 1943 he attended the Mannheim-Feudenheim elementary school and then the Lessing-Gymnasium in Mannheim. In 1953 he finished his school years with the Abitur. "Fips" Rohr was his sports teacher at the Lessing Gymnasium . In 1949 he was elected a member of the student council and its deputy chairman. During this time, a new student council statute was formulated and adopted and the school's first country home festival was held in the post-war period.

From 1953 to 1955 he completed an apprenticeship at Zellstoffwerke Waldhof AG (ZeWa) with a degree as an industrial clerk . During this time he was the spokesman for the commercial apprentices.

In the summer semester of 1955, he began studying economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg . Up until the summer semester of 1958, he concentrated primarily on the subjects of economic policy, finance and international monetary policy and passed the examination for a degree in economics with a grade of good.

During his school days and later during his studies, he worked for various Mannheim companies, including Anton Noll Bauunternehmung, OEG Mannheim, Brown Boveri & Cie. (BBC) and Waldhof pulp mill.

From 1959 he worked as a graduate economist for Deutsche Bank AG, and after stints in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Kaiserslautern , he headed the credit department in Ludwigshafen am Rhein with procuration from 1968 . In 1973 he was appointed department director. In 1983 he celebrated his 25th anniversary with the company and retired in 1993.

Alfred Rapp was married and lived in Mannheim with his wife Irmengard and three sons .

Political and voluntary work

In 1953 Alfred Rapp joined the CDU Mannheim at the age of 20. From 1959 to 1962 he was elected to the Mannheim-Feudenheim district advisory board and was a member of the extended district committee of the CDU Mannheim during this time. Due to his professional activity in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Kaiserslautern , he did not return to politics in Mannheim until 1968. From 1969 to 1975 he was again active as a district advisory council for Mannheim-Feudenheim. From 1972 to 1975 he was elected deputy district chairman of the Mannheim CDU, and from 1975 to 1994 he was a member of the Mannheim City Council . From 1984 he was a member of the board of the CDU parliamentary group in the municipal council of the city of Mannheim and from 1989 to 1994 deputy parliamentary group chairman.

On behalf of the Lord Mayor, Alfred Rapp looked after delegations from the twin cities in Mannheim as well as in Swansea and Toulon . For his services as a city councilor, he received the city of Mannheim's silver medal on December 8, 1994.

On October 25, 1979, City Councilor Alfred Rapp was elected as the CDU Landtag candidate in the CDU constituency assembly of constituency 35 (Mannheim Mitte) in the “Kaisergarten” with 62 of 108 votes cast. The CDU bodies had proposed city ​​councilor Gerhard Bloemecke , who lost with 44 votes and two abstentions.

As a district advisory council and then as a city councilor, Rapp campaigned for Feudenheim and Wallstadt. The culture hall as a sports, festival and congress hall and the south-east bypass were built as urban development core points. The Feudenheim-Gymnasium has been able to hold the examination for the Abitur in Feudenheim since the beginning of 1980, which previously took place under the direction of the Lessing-Gymnasium.

In the area of ​​spatial planning and regional development, Rapp was a member of the board of the Rhine-Neckar regional planning association , a forerunner of the Rhine-Neckar region and what is now the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region .

In addition to local political issues, he was mainly involved in the church sector. As Deputy Chairman of the Church Tax Representation of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , he was able to contribute his expertise in financial matters. On December 4, 1995, he received the Konrads Medal, the highest award for laypeople in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, from Archbishop Dr. Oskar Saier awarded. With his wife he was also involved in the Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK).

Alfred Rapp was a member of the Wirtschaftsjunioren of the IHK Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, a state and IHK district-spanning junior group, which is located at the IHK Rhein-Neckar .

Rapp was a volunteer member of a large number of associations and was also active as an old town councilor.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory overview of the Mannheim City Archives. (No longer available online.) In: Stadtarchiv Mannheim. 2011, archived from the original on June 5, 2014 ; Retrieved June 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.