Tilman Pünder

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Tilman Pünder (born December 27, 1932 in Münster , Westphalia , † December 18, 2021 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). Most recently he was senior city director of Münster.

family

Tilman Pünder was the youngest son from the marriage of the center and CDU politician Hermann Pünder (1888–1976) with Magda, née Statz; his mother was the sister of Leo Statz (1898–1943) and cousin of Erich Klausener . Tilman Pünder had three siblings: Hermann, Adelheid and Winfried.

His uncle was the lawyer Werner Pünder , whose son Reinhard Pünder was bishop of the Brazilian diocese of Coroatá . His aunt was Marianne Pünder , who had a doctorate in economics and was active in the resistance against the Nazi regime .

The lawyer Hermann Pünder is his son.

Life

After high school in Cologne in 1953 studied Pünder at the Universities of Cologne and Lausanne law . After the two state exams in 1957 and 1961 and his doctorate in 1960 with the dissertation Der Verwaltungszwang to enforce municipal administrative acts according to the Administrative Enforcement Act for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , he joined the main office of the German Association of Cities in Cologne as a consultant . There he was responsible for schools, culture and the establishment of a municipal representation at the European authorities in Brussels .

In 1971 the city council of Fulda elected Pünder as mayor . During his tenure, among other things, he was involved in the construction and commissioning of the city hospital (750 beds).

In 1980 Tilman Pünder was elected State Director of the State Welfare Association of Hesse (LWV). As a result, he played a key role in the implementation of the psychiatry reform by downsizing the large hospitals and building up close-to-home care with outpatient and semi-inpatient services and facilities. He also campaigned for the preparation of the history of psychiatry in Hesse and, together with Walter Heinemeyer, published the volume 450 Years of Psychiatry in Hesse (1983). After the CDU had lost an absolute majority in the LWV in 1986 due to the local election results, he left office.

In 1987 Tilman Pünder was appointed by the Hessian state government under Prime Minister Walter Wallmann (CDU) as regional president in the still young administrative district of Gießen . In this role he campaigned for the growing together of the very different parts of Central Hesse by developing regional structures ("Central Hesse Round") . “Reflect on regional strengths and strengthen them,” was his motto.

In 1989 Pünder left the Giessen office to succeed Hermann Fechtrup as City Director in his hometown of Münster . During his tenure in 1993 committed the Munster 1,200 years of the city's anniversary and organized in 1997 for the third time the International Sculpture Exhibition Skulptur.Projekte . The city used the end of the Cold War by converting properties that had previously been used by the military for strategic urban development goals, in particular for the promotion of industry and commerce and the creation of living space (“Housing Action Program”). Pünder sought to strengthen the regional functions of the former “provincial capital”, especially within the framework of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL), with the municipalities of the Münsterland and in the network of the city triangle of Münster, Osnabrück and Enschede / Hengelo .

When Pünder's retirement after the eight-year electoral period ended in August 1997, the system of municipal “ political dual leadership ” introduced by the British occupying forces in Münster in 1946, consisting of the Lord Mayor and the City Director, came to an end. The position of senior city director has not been filled since then.

During his municipal activities, Pünder belonged to various committees of the municipal umbrella organizations, including as chairman of the social committee of the Hessian Association of Cities (1971–1980) and a member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities (1990–1997).

He died on December 18, 2021.

Works

Pünder dedicated many years of voluntary work to social work: From 1972 to 1990 he headed the Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD) in the Diocese of Fulda , from 1998 to 2011 an institution for severely physically and multiply disabled children ("Heinrich Piepmeyer House") in Muenster.

Pünder also emerged as an author, primarily on historical topics. In 1966 he published a history of the United Economic Area 1946–1949 under the title Das bizonale Interregnum , which his father Hermann Pünder had headed as "Senior Director". After his retirement in 2006 he wrote a political biography of Georg Sperlich , one of his predecessors as head of administration in Münster. He also published scientific articles, including about his father Hermann Pünder and his uncle Erich Klausener . A documentation by Rhenish Citizens published in 2013 describes the story of his family with its branches (on the father's side) Pünder / Schoemann and (on the mother's side) Statz / Biesenbach in pictures of life and embedded in the respective contemporary historical context.

Since 1953 Tilman Pünder belonged to the Cologne Catholic student union AV Rheinstein Köln in the CV. From 1969 to 1971 he was their senior man. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse .

Fonts

  • The administrative compulsion to enforce municipal administrative acts according to the Administrative Enforcement Act for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Dissertation. University of Cologne, Cologne 1961.
  • The bizonal interregnum. The history of the united economic area 1946–1949 . With a foreword by Ludwig Erhard and an introduction by Hermann Pünder . Grote, Spich near Cologne 1966.
  • as co-author: school management and school authority (= headmaster's manual , vol. 19). Westermann, Braunschweig 1981.
  • as ed. with Walter Heinemeyer : 450 years of psychiatry in Hessen. Marburg an der Lahn 1983 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Volume 47).
  • Münster and Westphalia. Presentation on the Peace Supper on October 17, 1991 (= Focus , Vol. 11). Senior City Director of the City of Münster, Press and Information Office, Münster 1992.
  • Georg Sperlich. Lord Mayor of Münster in the Weimar Republic (= sources and research on the history of the city of Münster , Series B: Monographs , No. 9). Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06647-5 .
  • From citizens of the Rhineland. Images of life, values, current affairs. The Pünder / Schoemann and Statz / Biesenbach families from their roots to the present day . Edition Octopus in the publishing house Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-86991-909-6 .
  • In the clutches of the Nazi state. State Secretary Dr. Hermann Pünder 1944/45 . Aschendorff, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-402-13310-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the Westfälische Nachrichten of December 27, 1997.
  2. ↑ See Rudolf Morsey : Hermann Pünder . In: Rheinische Lebensbilder . Vol. 12 (1991), pp. 275-295.
  3. ↑ Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, A 188 ff. , Accessed on January 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ See the report in the Fuldaer Zeitung from June 18, 1971.
  5. ↑ See the report in the Hessische Allgemeine from October 2, 1980.
  6. ^ Tilman Pünder: Developments in psychiatric care . In: The City Day . No. 10, pp. 658-662 (1983).
  7. ^ Gießener Allgemeine from June 2, 1987.
  8. ↑ See Gießener Anzeiger of December 3, 1987.
  9. ^ Gießener Allgemeine from August 2, 1989.
  10. ↑ See the reports in the Westfälische Nachrichten of June 21 and 24, 1989.
  11. ^ Tilman Pünder: The inner community constitution of Münster in the course of the times . In: Hundred Years of Historical Commission for Hesse 1897–1997 . Marburg 1997, pp. 1099-1118.
  12. ^ City of Fulda mourns ex-mayor Dr. Pünder , Osthessennews from December 23, 2021
  13. ↑ See Tilman Pünder: The Heilpädagogische Förderverein Heinrich-Piepmeyer-Haus and the social changes from 1957 to 2007 . In: Westfälische Forschungen , Vol. 58 (2008), pp. 561-571.
  14. ^ Tilman Pünder: Georg Sperlich - Lord Mayor of Münster in the Weimar Republic . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2006.
  15. ↑ Hermann Pünder and his time in Cologne . In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association , vol. 59 (1988), pp. 249-293.
  16. ↑ Erich Klausener - State servant and clergyman - martyr . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch . Vol. 75 (2005), pp. 391-413.
  17. ↑ See the review by Bernd Haunfelder in the Westfälische Nachrichten of September 10, 2013.
  18. ↑ As well as other shorter articles in this series.
personal data
SURNAME Punder, Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU) and City Director of Münster (Westphalia)
BIRTH DATE December 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2021