Wolfgang Brix
Wolfgang Brix (born June 25, 1930 in Insterburg , † January 27, 2006 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He became known beyond the region as the long-standing Lord Mayor of the Palatinate city of Neustadt, where he also spent his old age.
education
Wolfgang Brix graduated from high school in Warendorf in 1950 and studied law and economics in Münster and Heidelberg . After receiving his doctorate in 1955, he briefly studied at the American elite Harvard University . From 1959 to 1960 he worked in an electric motor company and a bank in the USA, from 1960 to 1961 he was a research assistant at the Economic Senate of the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin . 1971 to 1972 he studied in Cambridge (England).
job
First stations
Initially, Brix was managing director of the German Wine Distillers Association and the Association of German Sektkellereien in Wiesbaden, as well as a member of the government at the Ahrweiler district office and, from 1964, at the Bernkastel district office .
Lord Mayor
At the instigation of the then CDU parliamentary group chairman in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , Helmut Kohl , Brix applied for the post of Lord Mayor of Neustadt in 1964 at the age of 34. The city council elected him with a majority of one vote, and Brix stayed in office for more than 16 years, later with more comfortable majorities. During his time there were numerous construction projects, such as the renovation of the old town and the establishment of the pedestrian zone , as well as the incorporation of nine surrounding villages (1969 and 1974) into Neustadt.
The Klemmhof as part of the city center that was renovated under Brix made two national headlines: first in the mid-1970s because of the unconventional type of renovation and then in 2009, three years after Brix's death, because of the evacuation of all residents for several weeks after construction defects led to the risk of collapse had.
Parliamentary work
From 1967 to 1975 Brix was elected a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. There he was a member of the budget and finance committee in the 6th electoral term and in the home affairs committee in the 7th electoral term. From 1974 to 1979 he was the parliamentary body County Council of the District Association Palatinate ago. This local authority is located between the state government and districts / district-free cities and has its roots in the time around the turn of the 18th to the 19th century. For his services to the Palatinate, Brix was later honored with the bronze sculpture of the Palatinate Lion , the highest honor awarded by the Palatinate District Association and designed by the sculptor Gernot Rumpf .
Other activities
At the end of 1981, Brix was appointed State Secretary to the Mainz Ministry of Economics by Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel . Three years later, Brix returned to Speyer in the Palatinate as President of the Rhineland-Palatinate Court of Auditors , where he stayed until his retirement.
For several years Brix was chairman of the supervisory board of Nürburgring GmbH , which is responsible for the Formula One races on the Eifel race track.
Brix was particularly interested in the partnership with the English city of Lincoln , which was established during his tenure in 1969. During his retirement, Brix spent much of his time in a country house he had bought in Norwich , Eastern England .
He was also President of the Rheinpfalz-Weinpfalz Förderungsgemeinschaft e. V., state chairman of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Rheinland-Pfalz e. V. and chairman of the board of directors of the Südwestdeutsche Hilfsgemeinschaft GmbH Hanover.
Honors
- 1972: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1978: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1995: Palatinate Lion of the Palatinate District Association
literature
- The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Mainz 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 97-98.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klemmhof cleared for months . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Complete edition. Ludwigshafen September 30, 2009.
- ↑ Palatinate Lion. Dear personalities. District Association of the Palatinate , archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; Retrieved November 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brix, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Insterburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 2006 |
| Place of death | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
Werner Lederle (1933–1936) | Richard Imbt (1936–1938) | Karl Ludwig Schlee (1938–1944) | Johannes Seiberth (acting) | Heinrich Saul (1946–1949) | Edwin Hartmann (1949–1965) | Wolfgang Brix (1965–1981) | Dieter Ohnesorge (1982–1992) | Horst Jürgen Weiler (1992–2001) | Hans Georg Löffler (2002–2017) | Marc Weigel (since 2018)