Werner Tarun

Werner Tarun (born January 7, 1920 in Berlin ; † December 19, 1975 ) was a German local politician and mayor of Mosbach from 1954 to 1974 . He laid the foundations for the city to become a major district town in 1976 .

Life

He was born as the son of the Berlin administrative officer Fritz Tarun and Anna. Student born and attended elementary school and high school in Berlin-Weißensee . After graduating from high school in 1938, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service , and in 1939 into military service . He took part in the Second World War in theaters of war on the Western Front and in the Soviet Union and received the Wound Badge and the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. In 1944 he became a lieutenant liaison officer for an air defense unit in Osnabrück , where he met Katharina Kitz, whom he married at the end of 1944 in her home town of Frankfurt am Main . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the English and was interned in Walenta.

After his release from captivity at the end of 1945, he settled in Frankfurt, as his last place of residence was in Berlin in the Soviet zone of occupation . He initially planned to embark on a career as a banker , but then, on the advice of his father-in-law, started an apprenticeship at the city of Frankfurt, which paved the way for him to a higher civil service career. There he rose to become the mayor's personal advisor , Dr. Quiet up.

In 1954 he applied for the advertised position as mayor of Mosbach . He stood in the election against incumbent Wilhelm Schwarz and one other candidate. Initially Tarun, who was completely unknown in Mosbach, was given no chance. Because he missed the official application deadline, his name did not appear on the ballot papers . However, three days before the start of the election, he was able to inspire the Mosbach population with a programmatic speech at a candidate presentation and received the support of the free voters, so that he won the election with over 65% of the votes cast. Many voters, who had to write his name on the ballot papers, misrepresented his name.

During his tenure in office, Tarun worked hard to ensure that Mosbach developed from a small, still agricultural administrative and administrative town to a medium-sized and industry-friendly district town. He reorganized the Mosbach administration, made Mosbach a regional educational center by building several new schools, including the Nicolaus-Kistner-Gymnasium Mosbach , modernizing the desolate electricity and water supply in the city area and opening it up against the influx of many There was a housing shortage caused by displaced persons in numerous new building areas, above all the Waldstadt . The state funds, without which many building projects could not have been carried out, often provided "Baudekan" Josef Krämer , who belonged to the state parliament until 1960 and built over 3,000 apartments by 1972 with his Mosbach building cooperative Neue Heimat . Tarun's merits also include the establishment of other industries in Mosbach, e.g. For example, the Hudson stocking factory with more than 1,000 jobs or the large companies of Luwa and Braukmann (later Honeywell-Braukmann ) as well as around 50 small and medium-sized companies that benefited from grants from the structural program for rural areas . Tarun thus countered the trend at the time of locating new companies primarily in the existing metropolitan areas and thus made Mosbach a central location, into which the surrounding communities of Lohrbach , Diedesheim , Sattelbach and Reichenbuch were incorporated during the further course of his term of office as part of the community reform and the 1972 entered into an administrative partnership with Neckarzimmern .

In the course of his second term of office, which began in 1962, Tarun fell ill with a nervous disease and was only able to complete his term with great difficulty. He was retired from office on January 25, 1974. His successor as mayor was Fritz Baier (CDU) , a member of the Bundestag . At the long controversial incorporation of Neckarelz in July 1975, Tarun was already retired. He did not live to see Mosbach's elevation to a major district town on July 1, 1976, which essentially goes back to his work. He died as a result of the nervous disease on December 19, 1975.

literature

• Erich Weiler: Werner Tarun - a mayor with drive and vision . In: Mosbacher Jahresheft 2001 , Mosbach 2001, pp. 63–79.