Wilhelm Boden

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Prime Minister Wilhelm Boden (seated, 2nd from right) at the Prime Minister's meeting in Munich in 1947

Wilhelm Boden (born March 5, 1890 in Grumbach , † October 18, 1961 in Birnbach ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( center , CDU ). From 1946 to 1947 he was the first Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life

Wilhelm Boden was born on March 5, 1890 as the son of a notary and judicial councilor in Grumbach near the Glan . After graduation in 1908 at the Humanist Kaiser-Wilhelm Gymnasium in Trier , he began a study of the legal and political sciences at the universities of Bonn and Berlin . In 1908 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Bavaria Bonn . He put 1911 the First State Exam from, received his doctorate in 1912 at the University of Würzburg to Dr. jur. et rer. pole. and then completed the legal preparatory service. In 1915 he passed the Great State Examination in Berlin . Subsequently, he entered the Prussian civil service and until 1916 worked as a court assessor at the public prosecutor's office and at the city administration in Cologne . From 1916 to 1919 he worked as a city and government assessor in Cologne, Essen and with the government in Düsseldorf .

During the Weimar Republic , Boden joined the Center Party. From October 1, 1919 to 1933 he was the district administrator of the Altenkirchen district , and from 1919 to 1920 and 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament . From March 10, 1931 to May 19, 1932 he was a deputy member of the Prussian State Council , and from 1932 to 1933 a member of the Prussian state parliament .

In 1933 he was removed from office by the National Socialists and imprisoned for seven months. He worked as an economic and legal advisor , and from 1940 as a general agent for a Cologne insurance company . In 1942 he was conscripted by the Cologne city council.

After the Second World War , the occupying powers made Boden again the district administrator of Altenkirchen (April to May 1945), from June 1945 to May 1946 he was the district president in Koblenz . He participated in the founding of the CDP , a forerunner party of the CDU, for which he was a member of the National Advisory Assembly from 1946 to 1947 . After a brief period in 1946 as President of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau , he was appointed provisional Prime Minister of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate on December 1, 1946 by the French occupation authorities on the initiative of Claude Hettier de Boislambert .

After the first state election on May 18, 1947 , in which he won a mandate himself, Boden set up a CDU cabinet in which he also held the Ministry of the Interior . However, he had to hand over his post as Prime Minister to his party friend Peter Altmeier on July 9th . The reason for this was a document he wrote in December 1945 in which he warned of the political risks of taking in Protestant expellees in areas predominantly inhabited by Catholics . With this attitude he was untenable as Prime Minister in the CDU. From 1947 until his retirement in 1959, he was President of the State Central Bank of Rhineland-Palatinate. From June 1951 until his death in 1961 he was parliamentary group leader of the CDU in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Gebr. Grünewald KGaA in Kirchhundem, a member of the supervisory board of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk and a member of the central bank of the Deutsche Bundesbank . Wilhelm Boden died on October 18, 1961 in his home town of Birnbach in the Westerwald .

Grave site of the Boden family in Altenkirchen / Ww

Honors

See also

literature

  • Thomas A. Bartolosch: Dr. Wilhelm Boden (1890-1961). "The forgotten country father". District Administrator of the Altenkirchen district and first Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate. A biographical study , 1st edition, Altenkirchen 2014.
  • Franz-Josef Heyen : Wilhelm Boden (1890-1961). First Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate , in: Franz-Josef Heyen (Ed.): Rhineland-Palatinate comes into being. Contributions to the beginnings of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz 1945–1951, (Publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, vol. 5), Boppard 1984, ISBN 3-7646-1848-5 , p. 185 -198.
  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, pp. 309-310.
  • Richard Ley: The government formations in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1947 also from the perspective of constitutional law , in: Yearbook for West German State History 41 (2015), pp. 699–742.
  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): 60 Years Parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate , (Series of publications by the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, issue 33), Koblenz 2006. ISSN  1610-3432
  • Wilhelm Boden , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 49/1961 of November 27, 1961, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Boden  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Richard Ley: The formations of government in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1947 also from the perspective of constitutional law, pp. 709–727.
personal data
SURNAME Boden, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician (center, CDU), Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Grumbach
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1961
Place of death Birnbach