Ulrich Stechele

Ulrich Stechele (born October 15, 1941 in Heidelberg ; † March 23, 2001 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and architect . From 1976 to 1988 and again in 1992 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

After attending grammar school in Heilbronn and an apprenticeship as a bricklayer , he studied at the State Building School in Stuttgart (now Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart ) and graduated in 1967 as a civil engineer (grad.) (Later converted to Dipl.-Ing. (FH)). Until 1972 he worked at the regional council of Stuttgart , from 1973 he was head of the city planning office of the city of Eppingen .

Stechele came to the CDU through the Young European Federalists in the early 1960s. He was a member of the Europa-Union Heilbronn and in 1968/69 also its chairman. In 1968 he moved into the Heilbronn municipal council for the party for the first time, to which he belonged continuously until his death in 2001. From 1976 to 1992 he was also chairman of the CDU city association Heilbronn. Under his chairmanship, the Heilbronn CDU was able to multiply its membership numbers from a few dozen to almost 700 and achieve increasing success in elections against the previously more successful SPD.

A first state parliament candidacy by Stechele in 1972 was unsuccessful, the mandate went to the Heilbronn SPD member Günter Erlewein . In the next state election in 1976, Stechele took the direct mandate in the Heilbronn state electoral district , while Erlewein remained the second mandate . In the 1980 and 1984 elections, Stechele defended the direct mandate. In the state parliament, Stechele mainly represented the interests of the city of Heilbronn. He was a member of the Interior Committee and the Building Commission.

In the state elections in 1988 Stechele was unable to defend the direct mandate in the Heilbronn constituency against the top SPD candidate Dieter Spöri and was therefore no longer a member of the state parliament. Instead, in the same year he became the state manager of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg. When the Nürtingen CDU MP Annemarie Hanke died on February 17, 1992 , who had moved into the state parliament as a substitute candidate, Stechele was the only unsuccessful CDU candidate in the Stuttgart administrative region to succeed him in the state parliament. April 1992 therefore belonged again for a few weeks. In this election, Stechele again ran against Dieter Spöri in the Heilbronn constituency, but could not prevail again. In 1993 he ended his work as CDU state manager. In the 1996 election, Stechele's long-time second candidate Johanna Lichy ran in the Heilbronn constituency and won the direct mandate against Spöri, who had a second mandate.

Stechele was a Protestant denomination and since 1973 with Irene Stechele, b. Hirth married, he had three sons.

Honors

In 1981 Stechele received the Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 1988 the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The city council of Heilbronn awarded him the city's ring of honor in 1996. In the new Robert-Mayer-Höhe development area in Heilbronn there has been an Ulrich-Stechele-Straße since 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Friedl: Ulrich Stechele (CDU). A man bets on a card . In: Heilbronn voice . 17th February 1992.
2. ^ Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , p. 206
3. ↑ Robert-Mayer-Höhe soon fully developed. Stechele- and Niethammer-Straße get a top layer . www.heilbronn.de, October 13, 2008

literature

• State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. 8th legislative term 1980–1984. Status: June 1982. 3rd edition. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1982, ISBN 3-87576-110-3 , p. 63
• State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. 9th legislative term 1984–1988. Status: July 1984. 1st edition. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1984, ISBN 3-87576-143-X , p. 62
• Josef Weik: The members of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2003. 7th edition. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-923476-03-5 , p. 144
• Ulrich Stechele, a big player in the Heilbronn CDU. In: CDU intern. Bulletin of the CDU district association Heilbronn , edition 11/2006, p. 4 ( here as a PDF file; 2.5 MB)