Viktor Renner

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Viktor Renner, second from left, with other participants at the Rittersturz Conference in July 1948

Viktor Johannes Wilhelm Renner (born December 31, 1899 in Mönchweiler ; † April 21, 1969 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer and after the Second World War a politician ( SPD ).

Weimar Republic and Third Reich

Viktor Renner was born the son of a dean. In 1908 he moved with his parents to Heidelsheim , where his father had been transferred. After graduating from high school in Bruchsal in 1917 , he took part in the First World War as a soldier until the end of 1918 . He was most recently taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in late 1919. He then took up a degree in law and economics at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg , which he completed in 1923 with the first state examination and in 1925 with the second state examination. He completed his legal clerkship at the Reutlingen District Court and the Tübingen District Court , joined the Württemberg judicial service as a judge in 1927 and became a district judge in 1928. Renner joined the SPD during the Weimar Republic . From 1937 he was a regional judge in Tübingen. From August to October 1939 he did short military service in a state rifle company.

Occupation and Federal Republic of Germany

After the Second World War, Renner was appointed Lord Mayor of Tübingen in 1945 and was also District Administrator of the Tübingen district until 1946 . In the immediate post-war period, he became the direct recipient of orders from the French local commanders and the main body of the executive. On October 25, 1945 he was appointed President of the Hechingen Regional Court. However, he could not take up this office because the French did not want to dismiss him as district administrator.

From December 9, 1946 to April 25, 1952, he was Minister of the Interior in the governments of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern led by Presidents Carlo Schmid (State Secretariat) , Lorenz Bock and Gebhard Müller . In 1947 he was elected to the Württemberg-Hohenzollern state parliament, to which he was a member until 1952.

After the formation of the "south-western state" of Baden-Württemberg , Renner was appointed Minister of Justice to the state government headed by Prime Minister Reinhold Maier on April 25, 1952 . On May 15, 1953, he resigned from his position in protest against the EDC contracts . Three years later he was again a member of the government and on May 9, 1956, he was appointed Minister of the Interior to the government led by Prime Minister Gebhard Müller. Since 1958 he has also been a member of the subsequent government led by Prime Minister Kurt Georg Kiesinger . After the formation of a coalition of CDU , FDP / DVP and GB / BHE , he left the state government on June 23, 1960. From 1952 to 1964 he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament .

Renner had been a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn since 1952 and later a member of the presidium of the German Red Cross . In addition, he acted as co-editor of the papers for German and international politics and as chairman of the youth welfare organization. He resigned from the editorial board of the papers in 1967 in a dispute over a series of essays by the East Berlin historian Eberhard Czichon, which made serious and, as later judged, untrue accusations against Hermann Josef Abs because of his activities during the National Socialist era.

From July 1955 to 1956 he was a member of the personnel appraisal committee for the new Bundeswehr . He died in Tübingen and was buried in the Lustnau cemetery.

Honors

  • Honorary citizenship of the city of Friedrichshafen, 1956
  • Honorary citizenship of the city of Tübingen, 1965
  • Viktor-Renner-Strasse in Tübingen-Lustnau
  • Viktor-Renner-Weg in Mönchweiler
  • Viktor-Renner-Strasse in Heidelsheim

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Rauch: Tübingen at the end of the war. In: tuebingen.de. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009 ; Retrieved August 6, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Brünger: History and Profit. How German corporations deal with their Nazi past . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, p. 164.

literature

  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 458 .

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personal data
SURNAME Renner, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renner, Viktor Johannes Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchweiler
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1969
Place of death Tübingen