Paul Luigs

Paul Joseph Luigs (born February 9, 1902 in Düsseldorf , † after 1982) was a German manager , entrepreneur and politician ( center , CDU , Hamburg block ). From 1954 to 1957 he was Senator for Economic Affairs for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Life

Luigs was born the son of a storekeeper . After attending elementary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and then continued his education with studies abroad. From 1926 he worked as a commercial clerk in the Rhenish-Westphalian heavy and tool industry, received a managerial position in 1933 and became director of the Carp + Hones steelworks in Düsseldorf in 1936. As such, he took over the management of the sales point for Northern Germany based in Hamburg. In the Hanseatic city he later became the managing director and co-owner of the wholesale trade Paul Luigs & Co., which also specialized in stainless steel and precision tools.

From 1926 to 1933 Luigs was a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the Center Party .

A year after the end of World War II , he joined the CDU. He was chairman of the CDU district association Harvestehude and a member of the state board of the CDU Hamburg . In 1954 he was elected deputy state chairman of the party. In the mayor elections in 1949 , 1953 and 1957 he was elected as a member of the Hamburg parliament, of which he was a member until 1961, from 1953 to 1957 as a member of the Hamburg bloc. After the Hamburg Senate decided to expand, Luigs was elected Senator for Economics on March 17, 1954. Together with Ernst Plate and as the successor to Carl-Gisbert Schultze-Schlutius , he headed the Department for Economics and Transport in the Sieveking Senate until December 21, 1957 .

Paul Luigs was with Elisabeth, geb. Meis, married and had three children.

literature

Anna Christine Storbeck: The governments of the federal and state governments since 1945. Olzog, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-789-27002-4 , p. 421.
Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 12th edition. Arani, Berlin 1955, p. 741.

Individual evidence

↑ Panoramic view. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, February 10, 1982, accessed on April 20, 2017 : "Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi conveyed the congratulations of the Senate to the former Hamburg Senator Paul Luigs, who turned 80 yesterday."
↑ Detlev Preuße: Formation of groups and intra-party democracy. Using the example of the Hamburg CDU. (= Studies on the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. 26). Hain, Königstein im Taunus 1981, ISBN 3-445-12158-3 , p. 176.

personal data
SURNAME	Luigs, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Luigs, Paul Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German manager, entrepreneur and politician (center, CDU, Hamburg-Block), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	after 1982

[1] Panoramic view. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, February 10, 1982, accessed on April 20, 2017 : "Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi conveyed the congratulations of the Senate to the former Hamburg Senator Paul Luigs, who turned 80 yesterday."

[2] Detlev Preuße: Formation of groups and intra-party democracy. Using the example of the Hamburg CDU. (= Studies on the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. 26). Hain, Königstein im Taunus 1981, ISBN 3-445-12158-3 , p. 176.