Paul Knüpper

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Paul Knüpper (born June 5, 1930 in Mayen ; † January 8, 2006 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Paul Knüpper was the youngest of three sons (Josef, Hans and Paul) of the married couple Theodor and Emilie Knüpper, nee. Gap. After attending elementary school in Mayen, Knüpper completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1944, which he completed on June 20, 1947 with the examination of a commercial assistant. Until December 31, 1948 he worked as a commercial clerk in retail. On January 1, 1949, he joined his father Theodor Knüpper's business (agricultural machinery trade) and became a partner from January 1, 1954. In addition to his professional activity, he was a member of the diocesan presidium of the Kolping Society in the Diocese of Trier from 1950 to 1966 and its chairman from 1970 to 1987. At the same time he was state chairman of the Kolping Society in Rhineland-Palatinate and a member of the Catholic Council in the Diocese of Trier. Paul Knüpper was married to Anna Maria (Annemarie) Knüpper, born on August 21, 1953. Müller (1930-2003). The couple had a son and two daughters.

Political career

Knüpper joined the CDU on March 1, 1954 and founded the Junge Union with political friends in Mayen in 1956 , later becoming its district and district chairman (Koblenz-Montabaur). In 1964, the members of the CDU city association Mayen elected him as their chairman. He stayed that way for 25 years (until 1989), had been deputy chairman of the CDU district association Mayen-Koblenz since 1970 and was a member of the Koblenz-Montabaur district executive of the CDU for many years. From 1956 to 2004 he was a member of Mayen's city council and from 1989 to 1999 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 1964 to 1994 he was a member of the Mayen district council and, after the regional reform in Rhineland-Palatinate (1969-1974), of the Mayen-Koblenz district council .

In the state elections in 1967 , 1971 and 1975 , Knüpper was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from a CDU list, to which he belonged until 1979. In parliament he was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee from 1967 to 1971, from 1971 to 1979 a member of the Economic and Transport Committee, from 1971 to 1975 a member of the Committee on Administrative Reform and the Committee on Petitions and from 1975 to 1979 a member of the Budget and Finance Committee.

On his 65th birthday, the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU), whose political companion Knüpper had been one of his political companions since 1954, wrote: "My congratulations go to a man who has helped shape political events in Rhineland-Palatinate for many years and who has made lasting contributions in the process But my best wishes go especially to my old friend and companion, to whom I have felt personally and politically connected for decades. During this time I have experienced the inner conviction with which you stand for our cause. "

Community service

In 1983 Paul Knüpper was the initiator and co-founder of the LAPIDEA Förderkreis Naturstein Mayen eV. In 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000 and 2003 the sponsorship group supported Paul Knüpper in the seventies on the so-called “Mayener mine field” Years ago, a total of eight sculptor symposia with a total of almost 100 participants.

Paul Knüpper was - together with the Mayor Mayor Albert Nell - the idea generator for the Mayen Castle Festival and co-founder of the association "Friends of the Castle Festival". He was the initiator of the district music school in the Mayen district and the "Lebenshilfe" association in his hometown. He came up with the idea of ​​building a leisure center in the Mayener Nettetal. He founded an "Academy of the Elderly" under the umbrella of the Mayen Kolping Family. As chairman of the "Kolpinghaus Mayen eV" (since 1959) he was co-initiator of the soldiers' meeting place "Haus im Möhren" (laying of the foundation stone on May 18, 1966), of which he remained chairman of the board of trustees for many years. In the 1990s Paul Knüpper organized dialect events on "Mayener Platt" in order to contribute to the preservation of the Moselle-Franconian dialect.

Honors

On December 21, 1996, Paul Knüpper was given honorary citizenship of the city of Mayen.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Advisory State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 361–362.
  • Rainer Quinten, Mayen 50 years ago - A city in ruins, majanum-verlag, 1994, pp. 43–47

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter dated May 31, 1995
  2. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Mayen. (PDF; 143 kB) History & Antiquity Association for Mayen and Surroundings eV, accessed on June 12, 2016 .

Other sources

  • Carmen Wölm; T. Brost, Rhein-Zeitung, edition CA. - 59 (2004), 302 of 28.12. - I11: A real marathon politician: Paul Knüpper, a Mayen veteran, sat on the Mayen council for 48 years
  • Has been involved for 5 decades: Women's Union is involved in city politics, Rhein-Zeitung v. 1st October 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Knüpper, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2006
Place of death Mayen