Theopont Diez

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Theopont Diez (born February 18, 1908 in Radolfzell on Lake Constance , † October 19, 1993 in Singen (Hohentwiel) ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

family

Theopont Diez was one of 11 children from the marriage of the farmer, member of the Reichstag and center politician Carl Diez (1877–1969) and Stefanie, geb. Vogler (1877-1961). He was married to Ilse, geb. von Riß (* 1911); the marriage had two children.

Life

From 1930 Diez studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Üechtland , Berlin , Munich and Heidelberg . Since his student days in Berlin he was a member of the Catholic student association KAV Suevia Berlin in the CV , later in 1974 with the establishment of the Catholic student association KDStV Bodensee Konstanz in the CV at the young Konstanz University. According to his own statements, he was a court trainee from March 1931 to summer 1934 and then went into business for himself as a lawyer in Singen am Hohentwiel. Diez was involved in the Windthorstbund and, like his father, was a member of the Center Party until 1933 . He did not become a member of the NSDAP , which excluded him from another legal career in the civil service during the Nazi era . According to his own statements in the course of his judicial chamber proceedings , he had become a member of the SA from June to October 1933 to enable him to complete his legal training . From autumn 1934 to 1945 Diez was also a member of the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association . At the beginning of the western campaign , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in May 1940 and was a soldier in an artillery unit until the end of the war in 1945 , most recently with the rank of lieutenant .

After completing his judicial chamber proceedings, which classified him as a “fellow traveler” (“sympathizer”) in 1946, Diez represented as a lawyer the interests of those affected by the Nazis in the region in their denazification ; for example in the case of the Nazi writer Ludwig Finckh or the Radolfzell mayor August Kratt , for whom Diez appealed . From 1946 to 1969 Diez was mayor of the city of Singen (Hohentwiel) and a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1952 to 1972. The state parliament elected him a member of the third federal assembly , which in 1959 elected Heinrich Lübke as federal president . His nickname was "the lion from Hohentwiel ".

He was instrumental in establishing the University of Konstanz . When the university faced the complete failure of the reform concept in 1972 without a leader, he was entrusted with the management of the university as state commissioner for Baden-Württemberg and led it as state commissioner into calmer waters. Like Prime Minister Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Diez was convinced of the historical dimension of the project; 500 years since the last university was founded in the southwest. As President of the Friends of the University of Konstanz (from 1996: Universitätsgesellschaft Konstanz ) from 1974 to 1986 he worked on the integration of the Union with the region. Diez was an honorary senator of the University of Konstanz.

As a friend of Otto Dix , Diez campaigned for the Singener Kunstverein and founded the Singener Kunstsammlung.

In 1955 he was one of the initiators in founding the Hegau History Association .

honors and awards

Publications

  • Theopont Diez: Walter Wiederhold 1885–1959. In: Association for the history of the Hegau (ed.): Hegau. Journal for the history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance. No. 8, 1959, pp. 225-226.
  • Theopont Diez: Dr. Bernhard Dietrich 1897–1961. In: Hegau. 11/12, 1961, pp. 167-168.
  • Theopont Diez et al. a .: The interaction of churches and communities in social and youth welfare. Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1969 (= publications of the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. No. 16).
  • Theopont Diez (ed.): The Hegau. Landscape between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance. On behalf of the Black Forest Association and the Association for the History of the Hegau. 2., verb. Edition. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, ISBN 3-7930-0249-7 (= hiking books of the Black Forest Association. Volume 3).

literature

  • Herbert Berner: Laudation for Theopont Diez on December 2, 1978. In: Hegau. 35, 1978, pp. 7-11.
  • Dedicated to Theopont Diez on the occasion of his 75th birthday. In: Konstanzer Blätter for university questions. 21.1 / 3 = issue 78/80. Universitäts-Verlag, Konstanz 1983.
  • Reinhild Kappes: Theopont Diez, the lion from Hohentwiel. In: Singener Jahrbuch. 1996/97, 1997, pp. 63-74.
  • Diez, Theopont, local politician, MdL-CDU, 1908-199. In: Baden-Württemberg biographies. Volume 3. Published on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg by Bernd Ottnad (†) and Fred L. Sepaintner, 2002. XXII, ISBN 978-3-17-017332-3 , p. 34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the Theopont Diez judicial chamber file , Freiburg State Archives, D 180/2 No. 7199 .
  2. ↑ See Markus Wolter: Dr. Ludwig Finckh: "Blood Consciousness". The Höri writer and the SS , in: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5: People exposed to Nazism from the Lake Constance area , Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 , p. 100 f.
  3. ↑ Diez, Theopont . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Daecke bis Dziekan] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 221 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 212 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ wochenblatt.net: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Harvard on Lake Constance has always been a dream. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wochenblatt.net
  5. ^ Theopont Diez, Honorary Senator of the University of Konstanz
  6. ^ Hegau History Association
personal data
SURNAME Diez, Theopont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Radolfzell on Lake Constance
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1993
Place of death Singing (Hohentwiel)