Paul Gerlach (politician, 1929)

Paul Gerlach (born August 18, 1929 in Obernau ; † May 24, 2009 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( CSU ). From 1969 to 1987 he was a member of the German Bundestag.

job and education

Gerlach studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . In 1951 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Gothia-Würzburg in the CV . He later switched to studying economics and business administration at the Administrative College in Speyer . In 1954 he passed the first and in 1957 the second state examination in law in Würzburg.

He was admitted to the bar and worked in Aschaffenburg. In 1961 he entered the Bavarian civil service and worked for the district government of Lower Franconia , most recently as a government director.

After leaving the German Bundestag in 1987, he ran a law firm in his hometown of Aschaffenburg with his son Thomas and now his granddaughter Judith Gerlach , who both followed in the footsteps of their father and grandfather.

He found his final resting place in the forest cemetery in the Aschaffenburg district of Obernau.

politics

1951 Gerlach became a member of the CSU. He was the deputy district chairman of the Junge Union (JU) in Lower Franconia and chairman of the JU district association of Aschaffenburg. After his studies, he was CSU constituency manager for the then constituency 231, which included the independent city of Aschaffenburg, the districts of Aschaffenburg, Alzenau, Miltenberg and Obernburg, and later CSU district chairman.

As a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency Aschaffenburg-Stadt und Land , he was elected to the German Bundestag in the 1969 Bundestag election. In the 6th electoral term he was a member of the Committee on Youth, Family and Health, the Committee on Transport and the Committee on Post and Telecommunications; in the seventh to tenth electoral terms he was a member of the Home Affairs Committee .

In 1987 he waived re-election for health reasons.

Engagements

Paul Gerlach was active in the table tennis club 1950 eV Obernau, which then joined the nationwide DJK sports association and was Gerlach's founding member and chairman from 1950 to 1969 and again from 1969 to 1986. The construction of the “Am Heidig” sports area was built on his initiative.

Honors

• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1978)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (1980), awarded by Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss
• Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1986), awarded by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 255.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Gerlach ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
2. ↑ Judith Gerlach ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.