Theo Magin

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Theo Magin (born December 15, 1932 in Schifferstadt ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

After attending primary school and the advanced high school , Theo Magin passed the Abitur examination in Speyer in 1953. He studied at the Landau University of Education and at the University of Heidelberg and became vice rector . From 1962 he was a member of the city council of Schifferstadt, from 1966 first alderman . In 1968 he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament for the first time , to which he was to belong until 1980, from 1975 as the parliamentary manager of the CDU parliamentary group. In 1968 he became chairman of the Speyer district association of the CDU, in 1969 - after the district reform - of the Ludwigshafen-Land district association; he held this office until 1994. The pedagogue was full-time mayor of Schifferstadt from 1971 to 1975. From 1974 to 1999 he was a member of the Palatinate District Parliament . From 1980 to 1994 (9th to 12th electoral term) Magin was a direct candidate for the Neustadt - Speyer constituency and a member of the German Bundestag . He was president of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities three times : from 1983 to 1985, from 1988 to 1990 and finally from 1992 to 1994. He is Catholic and married.

Honors

1995 Schifferstadt made Theo Magin an honorary citizen . In 1996 he received the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The District Association of the Palatinate awarded him the coat of arms in 1999. He is also the holder of the Freiherr vom Stein plaque . Theo Magin is honorary chairman of the CDU district association Rhein-Pfalz.

literature

  • Theo Magin - a passionate politician. In: Gerhard Sellinger: Contributions to the history of Schifferstadt. Geier-Druck-Verlag, Schifferstadt 2004, pp. 82–83.
  • Theo Magin. In: Gerhard Sellinger: At home in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. Sellinger, Schifferstadt 2010, p. 126.
  • “Theo Magin has enriched this world in all his work.” Statements, memories and anecdotes from friends, political companions and dignitaries. In: Schifferstadter Tagblatt No. 292 of December 15, 2012, magazine. ZDB ID 1019722-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate: The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Ed .: The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 439-440 .
  2. Cf. also on Magin's 80th birthday in the same issue on the first page of the restaurant, the two articles: “A stroke of luck, yes a blessing for Schifferstadt and the Palatinate” and “What comes in life, one should accept.” In: Schifferstadter Tagblatt No. 292 of December 15, 2012. ZDB -ID 1019722-9 . Furthermore: gratitude and wellbeing. In: Schifferstadter Tagblatt No. 293 of December 17, 2012.