Peter Popitz
Peter Popitz (born October 8, 1937 in Passau ; † October 12, 2017 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1990 to 1999 he was Lord Mayor of the independent city of Frankenthal (Palatinate).
Life
Popitz studied law at the universities of Munich, Freiburg and Berlin. After the state examination, he became a judicial assessor at the Berlin Court of Appeal from 1969 to 1971 , before becoming a personal assistant to the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Schütz , until 1972 . In 1972 he moved to Gustav Heinemann ( Federal President 1969 to 1974) as head of the Personal Office . Then in 1974 he went to the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a research assistant in the working group “Basic domestic policy issues” before moving to local politics in 1976.
Popitz was a Protestant and with Jutta geb. Rathe married, the couple had two sons.
politics
On December 9th, 1976 Popitz became mayor and department head for culture, school and sport of the city of Frankenthal. As such, he initiated the renowned Frankenthal Talks, the city's biennial cultural weeks, the Perron Art Prize (since 1981) and a “Prussian Round Table”.
On December 13, 1989 he was appointed by the city council to succeed Jochen Riebel (CDU), who ended his term of office prematurely. Since January 1, 1990, Popitz was Lord Mayor of the city, an office he held for ten years. He earned merit through the town twinning with Strausberg in Brandenburg shortly after reunification in 1990 and with the Polish Sopot in the following year. During his term of office, the opening of the town hall (1991, later Congress Forum Frankenthal ), the renovation in the area of Bahnhofstrasse and Schlossergasse and the upgrading of the city center through various construction and redesign measures fall .
Popitz was honorary chairman of the Frankenthaler Arbeiterwohlfahrt for many years .
"I came to the SPD through the Sermon on the Mount and not through Marxism ."
Awards
Among other things, Peter Popitz was honored with the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Peter Popitz Heinz Galinski Medal , an award that honored his efforts towards reconciliation with the Jews.
Web links
- frankenthal.de: The mayors of Frankenthal
- SPD Frankenthal: The Frankenthaler SPD mourns the loss of the former Lord Mayor Peter Popitz. (With photo, obituary dated October 14, 2017)
literature
- Alois Ecker: Peter Popitz - An obituary . In: Frankenthal then and now 2017. Frankenthal 2017. p. 85
Individual evidence
Hermann Strasser (1921–1933) | Hieronymus Merkle (1942–1945) | Hermann Strasser (1945) | Karl Zimmermann (1946–1947) | Karl Breyer (1947–1948) | Adam Kroll (1949) | Emil Kraus (1949–1959) | Jürgen Hahn (1959–1964) | Berno Zeißler (1964–1972) | Günter Kahlberg (1972–1983) | Jochen Riebel (1984–1989) | Peter Popitz (1990–1999) | Theo Wieder (2000–2015) | Martin Hebich (since 2016)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popitz, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician (SPD), 1990–1999 Lord Mayor of Frankenthal (Palatinate) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 2017 |
| Place of death | Frankenthal (Palatinate) |