Peter Joseph Jörg

Peter Joseph Jörg (born November 14, 1874 in Großauheim ; † December 19, 1958 ) was a German administrative lawyer, local politician and local researcher.

Life

Jörg passed his matriculation examination at the Rhabanus-Gymnasium in Fulda and studied law in Berlin, Bonn and Würzburg, where he received his doctorate for the first time in 1899. He then worked as a journalist for the Franconian Volksblatt , the Essener Volkszeitung and, from 1903, for the party secretariat of the Center Party in Cologne. He found politics through Konrad Adenauer and Karl Trimborn . 1920 he was District Administrator of the district Gladbach and remained until its dissolution in 1929 in office. He then became the provisional district administrator in the Münster district .

When the National Socialists came to power, he returned to Würzburg and resumed his studies in philosophy, history and art history at the Philosophical Faculty and obtained his doctorate in 1942. phil. For the parish of the Adalberokirche he also wrote church guides and dealt with the life of the eponymous Würzburg bishop Adalbero . At the end of the war he was appointed by the American military government as district administrator for the Hammelburg district and confirmed in office in 1946 by the first freely elected district council. He was also a member of the circle for the state constituent assembly .

After leaving politics, he took over the management of the seminar library of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Würzburg University, which he painstakingly rebuilt, and also headed the diocesan history study group of the cathedral school.

In December 1958, he was hit by a driver while leaving the university. He died at the age of 84 from the consequences of the traffic accident and was buried in Münsterschwarzach.

Since 1895 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Markomannia Würzburg .

Honors

• 1952: Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Würzburg
• 1955: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
• New Year's Order
• Honorary citizen of the University of Würzburg

literature

• 50th anniversary of the death of District Administrator Peter Joseph Jörg , in: POW, Press Service Bischöfliches Ordinariat Würzburg, No. 49 of December 3, 2008
• Honorary doctorates from the Catholic Theological Faculty of Würzburg

Web links

• Peter Joseph Jörg in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History