Werner Ludwig

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Werner Ludwig (2000)

Werner Ludwig (born August 27, 1926 in Pirmasens ; † February 25, 2020 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen am Rhein for 28 years .

family

Ludwig comes from a family with a long social democratic tradition. His father Adolf Ludwig was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in 1918 and honorary mayor of Pirmasens from 1920 to 1930 . After being arrested several times by the National Socialists , he and his family fled to Metz in France in 1939 .

education and profession

Werner Ludwig was able to attend school in occupied France. In 1942, he took in Toulouse , a study of the law to which he in Paris continued.

In 1946 Ludwig returned to Germany and joined the SPD. In 1950 he completed his studies in Mainz with the first state examination in law . After the second state examination, Ludwig first worked as a lawyer at the DGB in Düsseldorf and then at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Insurance Institute in Speyer . In 1955 Ludwig received his doctorate , a year later he entered the service of the city of Ludwigshafen as legal advisor to the social department.

politics

Ludwig's place of work: Rathaus-Center Ludwigshafen

In 1958 Ludwig became the mayor of Ludwigshafen and took over the social and housing department. In 1962 he was elected chairman of the SPD district of Palatinate, which he led until 1980. In 1964 he became a member of the Palatinate District Assembly and was its chairman until 1974. In addition, he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament in 1963 . He resigned when he was elected Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen in May 1965. He held this office for 28 years. Once again, this time from 1979 to 1996, he was the district chairman. He held this office for a total of 27 years.

Ludwig's tenure in Ludwigshafen was accompanied by an extraordinary economic prosperity in the city. Therefore a number of large projects could be implemented. The most important of these include the Rathaus-Center , the Hack-Museum , the creation of the pedestrian zone, the relocation of the main station and the continuation of the business card project .

In his tenure as mayor Ludwig appreciated the fact that during the City Council meeting of 28 January 1985, the Council member Bernhard Braun a 13 × 8 cm sticker "nuclear weapons-free city Ludwigshafen" wore a violation of the public order and closed the carrier from the Session. This sued through all three administrative courts and was ultimately defeated on February 12, 1988.

Honors

In 1990 Ludwig was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit, and in 1992 the European Union pin in gold. At the end of June 1993 he retired as the longest-serving German mayor. A month earlier had him Ludwigshafen city council with the honorary citizenship awarded the city. On April 20, 2008 Ludwig was awarded the Wilhelm Dröscher plaque in Maudacher Castle by Kurt Beck , Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Works

  • On road. Life memories. Autobiography. Palatinate publishing house, Landau in der Pfalz 1997, ISBN 3-87629-277-8 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Ludwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. SWR Aktuell: Ludwigshafen mourns ex-Mayor Werner Ludwig. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  2. https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-ludwigshafen-braun-endet-nach-34-jahren-mandat-ab-_arid,1291259.html
  3. ^ Order of the Federal Administrative Court : Local law; Council meeting; Maintaining order; Free expression; Wearing stickers. February 12, 1988, accessed on October 9, 2018 (Ref .: BVerwG 7 B 123.87).