Paul Herrmann (politician, 1913)

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Paul Herrmann (* 16th December 1913 in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine , † 19th October 2015 ) was a CDU - politician .

Life

Paul Herrmann grew up in his hometown as the child of the railway official Georg Herrmann and Mrs. Katharina, nee. Kuhn, in a Catholic family. He was married to Inge Herrmann since 1942; the marriage resulted in four children.

He studied economics and social sciences at the University of Heidelberg . After graduating with a degree in economics, he was in 1938 with the work Studies on agricultural structure means bathing to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He was research assistant at the Institute for Social and Political Sciences at Heidelberg University (Insosta). This was followed by a position in the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture in Berlin. Herrmann did not join the NSDAP . During World War II he was an infantry officer at the front in Poland , France , Yugoslavia , several times in the Soviet Union and on the Siegfried Line . He was wounded three times. After D-Day 1944, he was taken prisoner by the Americans and was released in October 1945 after internment in the USA . From 1945 he worked in the finance department of the American administration for the US occupation forces in Stuttgart on building up the banking system and from 1946 for the regional association of agricultural cooperatives.

In 1947 he became mayor of Mühlacker and a district councilor in the Vaihingen district .

After no less than nine district administrators or provisional district administrators had headed the Sinsheim district from 1945 to 1950 , Herrmann was invited to run for candidacy by the Stuttgart Interior Minister Fritz Ulrich and in 1950 was elected as non-party district administrator in Sinsheim. He rebuilt the poor infrastructure, such as the long-distance water supply Rheintal (today: Lake Constance water supply) and the Sinsheim district hospital. With the establishment of an office for economic development, new commercial and industrial settlements could be realized. With the Sinsheim Center for Vocational Schools, the largest school in the Rhein-Neckar district was created. Herrmann set up a community education center (later a community college), a district music school and a district library with a full-time librarian, a novelty in North Baden. 1972 ended his term of office.

From 1972 to 1976 he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament for the CDU .

From 1971 to 1973 Herrmann was the chairman of the board of the Baden-Württemberg Hospital Society and on the board of the German Hospital Society, as well as the DRK district chairman. Paul Herrmann was the founder of the Kraichgau Foundation Dr. Paul Herrmann , whose chairman of the board of directors he was from 1972 to 1998, and the local history working group of the district of Sinsheim (since 1972 Kraichgau homeland association ).

Paul Herrmann last lived with his wife in the Augustinum residential building in Heidelberg; he died on October 19, 2015 at the age of 101.

honors and awards

literature

  • Michael Ertz: Former District Administrator Dr. Paul Herrmann on his 75th birthday . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 11, 1989, pp. 11-14.
  • Bernd Röcker: Obituary for Dr. Paul Herrmann . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 24, 2015, pp. 9-10.
  • * Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the higher offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 313-314 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alina Eisenhardt: Former District Administrator Dr. Paul Herrmann turns 100 , RheinNeckarBlog, December 16, 2013, accessed on October 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Founder of the Kraichgau Foundation Dr. Paul Herrmann kraichgau-stiftung.de, accessed on October 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ Former District Administrator of the Sinsheim District Dr. Paul Herrmann passed away - Bleibende Verdienste RheinNeckarBlog, October 20, 2015, accessed on October 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), mayor and district administrator, MdL (Baden-Württemberg)
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 2015