Vincent Schwind

Vinzenz Schwind (born May 12, 1910 in Aschaffenburg ; † March 17, 1974 there ) was a chemist and from 1945 to 1970 Lord Mayor of the Lower Franconian city of Aschaffenburg in the Free State of Bavaria . Schwind was a member of the CSU until 1952 , after which he was the founder of the "non-partisan unity list".

Life

Schwind was born as the son of the stonemason and sculptor - later detective inspector - with the same first name and his wife Maria Magdalena, née Dölger, at 6 Gabelsbergerstrasse. After elementary school and high school in Aschaffenburg , he graduated from high school on March 29, 1929. In the same year he began studying natural, legal and political sciences as well as history at the universities of Heidelberg and Königsberg . Since 1930 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Arminia Heidelberg . To Königsberg , where he became a Dr. rer. nat. obtained his doctorate, he enrolled again in the winter semester 1938/39 at the University of Frankfurt am Main for economics and social sciences.

Before he took up his service at Hoechster Farbwerke in 1938 , he married Emmy Walter, the daughter of the local hotelier Valentin Walter , who was born in Merano , and Anna Veronika Koloseus, who came from the Aschaffenburg stove factory dynasty. After completing his military service, released as a sergeant in the reserve, he was transferred to the Leuna Works in Merseburg from October 1944 . In May 1954, at the age of only 46, his wife, Emmy, who had been charitable for many years, passed away.

Grave site in the Aschaffenburg forest cemetery

On May 12, 1960, the senior mayor of the Federal Republic of Germany celebrated his 50th birthday. In March 1965, in Taufers (South Tyrol) , he married the painter Eva Maria Benken from Nuremberg , assistant to Prof. Hermann Kaspar from Munich , who was responsible for the artistic design of the town hall, the meeting room and later the re-creation of the ceiling painting of the Parish Church of Our Lady, which was destroyed in the war.

In 1973 Schwind fell seriously ill and died on March 17, 1974 at the age of 63 in his hometown. He was buried next to his first wife in the Aschaffenburg forest cemetery. In his honor, Jahnstrasse, where he lived for many years, was renamed Schwindstrasse in July 1978.

Career

Shortly after the end of the Second World War , Schwind entered the service of the city of Aschaffenburg. As the head of the Reconstruction Office, his first priority was clearing the war rubble and repairing the only slightly damaged residential buildings. On December 31, 1945, the Americans appointed Schwind Lord Mayor of Aschaffenburg, his predecessor Jean Stock was appointed to Würzburg. According to Schwind's emergency plan, the most serious war damage was repaired and missing funds were raised. By 1947, the schools that were still in existence were renovated, the old hospital rebuilt, and a culture committee established so that a modest theater could start in the Blue Hall of the Frohsinn building. During his term of office the construction of the school center in the district of Leider, the new building of the Kronberg-Gymnasium, the construction of the Ebertbrücke and Willigisbrücke, the planning of a municipal ring road and the completion of the first construction sections of this road in the districts of Damm and Leider.

Schwind ran for the CSU in 1946 and 1948. The only opposing candidate was his predecessor in the office of Jean Stock ( SPD ). From 1952 he ran for the "non-partisan unity list" (opposing candidate Alfons Goppel , CSU and later Bavarian Prime Minister). In 1958 and 1964, Schwind was re-elected. In 1970 he lost the election against his successor Dr. Willi Reiland . The guiding principle in his work as Lord Mayor was always: "I always endeavored to do my duty and to achieve above average."

literature

• Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg mayor Würzburg: Volksblatt Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1983, ISBN 3-429-00875-1

Web links

• Information from the city of Aschaffenburg about Dr. Vincent Schwind