Willi Ankermüller

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Willi Ankermüller (born March 18, 1901 in Neustadt adSaale ; † July 7, 1986 in Großhesselohe ) was a German lawyer and politician. After the end of the Second World War he was one of the defining figures in the reconstruction of parliamentarism in Bavaria and the early history of the CSU . The doctor of law took part in the drafting of the Bavarian state constitution in 1946 and was a member of the first state parliament after the war. From 1947 to 1950 he was Bavarian Minister of the Interior and from 1957/58 Bavarian State Minister of Justice.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1920, Ankermüller studied law and political science in Würzburg . There he became an active member of the Catholic student association K.St.V. Walhalla Würzburg in the KV . In 1925 he did his doctorate on the property status of the religious and their branches according to the Codex Juris Canonici and initially worked as official guardian and manager of the city youth welfare office in Schweinfurt . Two years later, he passed the second state examination in law and settled in Schweinfurt as a lawyer. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was briefly taken into " protective custody ". In 1938 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a soldier in World War II from 1939 to 1945 .

He was married to Elisabeth born in 1926. Dielmann.

politics

His political career began in the spring of 1945 when, after the end of the war, he was appointed District Administrator of the Lower Franconian district of Hofheim in Lower Franconia by the US military government . There he was a co-founder of the district association of the CSU in autumn 1945. The following year he took over the post of district administrator in the neighboring district of Bad Neustadt an der Saale . His contacts to the Würzburg group of the CSU smoothed Ankermüller's advancement into Bavarian state politics. In June 1946 he was elected to the state constituent assembly , which drafted a new state constitution by the end of October 1946. In the referendum on the constitution on December 1, 1946 and the state election that took place at the same time, Ankermüller in Lower Franconia was elected to the first Bavarian state parliament after the end of the war and six weeks later was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior , headed by Josef Seifried . When the SPD left the government of Hans Ehard in September 1947 , he succeeded Seifried in the office of Minister of the Interior. With the formation of the CSU / SPD coalition after the state elections in 1950, he resigned his post to Wilhelm Hoegner .

From then on, Ankermüller's parliamentary work concentrated on legal and security issues. He took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Security and became Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. In addition, he served from 1950 to 1962 as a non-professional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court .

In October 1957 the four-party coalition led by Wilhelm Hoegner broke up and Hanns Seidel was elected as the new Prime Minister. Seidel, also from Lower Franconia, brought Ankermüller into his cabinet as Bavarian Minister of Justice . He was a member until the state elections in December 1958. Following his ministerial office, he resumed his work as a lawyer, but remained a member of the state parliament until the end of the 5th legislative period in November 1966.

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