Sebastian Ganser

Sebastian Ganser (born October 12, 1882 in Laupheim , † July 8, 1957 in Laupheim) was a German farmer and member of the state parliament.

Life

Born in Laupheim, he did an apprenticeship at the agricultural school in Hohenheim and, after graduating, ran the family farm in Laupheim. He was a co-founder of the dairy cooperative in Laupheim and headed the local purchasing and sales cooperative from 1919 to 1922.

Strongly influenced by Catholicism, Ganser was a member of the German Center Party in the Württemberg state parliament from 1920 to 1924, based in Stuttgart. He was also active in the Laupheim municipal council. In the city where the largest Jewish community in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg lived until the middle of the 19th century, he advocated equal coexistence between Christians and Jews.

During the Nazi dictatorship, he was sidelined in terms of local politics, and he was threatened several times for his oppositional behavior and taken away for interrogation.

After the Second World War , Ganser was a founding member of the Laupheim CDU, which he chaired until 1953.

From 1946 to 1948 he was again a member of the Laupheim City Council.

From 1947 to 1952 he was a CDU member of the state parliament for Württemberg-Hohenzollern in Bebenhausen.

literature

• Dieffenbacher, Volker and Russ, Helmut. Jews and Christians in Laupheim in the 20th century. 2018 (pp. 42–43)
• Emmerich, Rolf: Kehillah Laupheimer traces. Stuttgart and Laupheim. 2012. ISBN 978-3-933726-44-5 . (Pp. 165–166)
• Weik, Josef: Member of the Bundestag and Landtag history of Baden-Württemberg 1945–1980. 2nd supplemented edition 1980.

Web links

• Chronicle of the CDU City Association Laupheim 1946 - 1996

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burkhard Volkholz: Chronicle. Retrieved October 31, 2018 .