Wilhelm Silvanus

Wilhelm Silvanus (born September 2, 1927 in Lisdorf , today Saarlouis , † December 23, 1999 ) was a German politician ( CDU , SPD ).

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Silvanus attended elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Saarlouis . Towards the end of the Second World War he was drafted as an air force helper. After the war he attended the Episcopal Konvikt and the Max Planck Gymnasium in Trier . There he also made up his Abitur. He then entered the Order of the White Fathers and began to study Catholic theology. As part of this, he served his novitiate in a mission station in Africa . In 1952 he broke off his theology studies and studied economics in Saarbrücken . He was active as chairman of the Catholic student community and in pro-German student groups, also for the return of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany , and he also founded the local group of the Junge Union in Lisdorf. In 1954 he moved to the University of Bonn, where he passed the exam to become a qualified economist two years later. During this time he returned to his hometown Lisdorf and took up a job in the Saarland Ministry of Finance . In 1957 he resigned from the CDU and three years later joined the SPD, where he was chairman of the Jusos in Saarlouis and a sub-district of the SPD. In 1962 he moved to the Chamber of Labor, where he worked as a consultant for economic and financial policy.

In 1964 Silvanus was elected to the Saarlouis city council for the first time; there he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and volunteer as a finance officer. For a while he was entrusted with running the city administration. From 1968 he also belonged to the district council of the Saarlouis district , in which he was the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1965 he was elected to the Saarland Landtag for the first time , to which he belonged for twenty years. During this time he was spokesman for budgetary and financial matters and later deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1985, he decided not to run again. During his political time, Silvanus played a key role in the development of his hometown Saarlouis. In 1990 he withdrew from politics after a series of internal party differences, and in 1996 he resigned from the SPD.

Silvanus married Marianne Thull in 1963; the couple had a son and three daughters. He was buried on December 28, 1999 in the Lisdorf cemetery.

Web links

• Wilhelm Silvanus on saarland-biografien.de