Wolfgang Mülberger

Wolfgang Mülberger (born June 21, 1900 ; † September 5, 1983 in Stuttgart ) was Lord Mayor of Tübingen from 1949 to 1954 . As a student he joined the Corps Suevia Tübingen and later became a member of the CDU. He earned a doctorate and on February 26, 1955, he became an honorary senator of the University of Tübingen .

The first Tübingen city ring race

As Lord Mayor , Wolfgang Mülberger was impressed by the idea of bringing crackling motorcycles to the first Tübingen city ring race in the southern part of Tübingen in June 1949. "The city of Tübingen proves that it is not only a quiet city of science, but that it takes a lively interest in modern technical developments," wrote Mülberger in a greeting to the event on the last weekend in June 1949. Mülberger was not only happy the audience. He also wanted retail to benefit from the race. That is why he ensured that the shops could also be open on race Sunday. In the official gazette he appealed to the people of Tübingen to be nice to the guests and urged the dealers to “think about a tasteful preparation of their shops”.

50,000 people flocked to the southern part of Tübingen to see racing drivers like Schorsch Meier in his supercharged BMW on the triangular course at 124 km / h through the southern part of the city. So many people have never been to a sporting event in Tübingen before or since.

Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research

Wolfgang Mülberger tried to bring the Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research to Tübingen as one of the successor organizations of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG). As early as April 1953, he developed the vision of "turning Tübingen into a new kind of 'German Cambridge'."

City Association for Sport Tübingen

In a letter dated July 22, 1954 to public prosecutor Stein, Wolfgang Mülberger advocated the re-establishment of the City Association for Sport Tübingen , referring to a previous discussion with Mr. Stein. This letter was about the planned double gym in the Weststadt (today's Hermann-Hepper-Halle), about a changing room for mother and child in the municipal outdoor pool, about school sports festivals in the outdoor pool, about funding from the city for the clubs, about financial reduction From honorary prizes, which for financial reasons will only be promoted as book or picture gifts in the future, to the revitalization of the city run in the area of the avenues and finally to the provision of enough water for the ice rink on the courts of the tennis club in Wilhelmstrasse by the Stadtwerke.

This letter expresses what the city association still represents today: “The city association sees itself as the link of Tübingen sport between the sporting member clubs and the sporting municipal and public institutions and organizations. It serves as a voice for sports politics in Tübingen. "

Honorary citizenship of Theodor Haering

He started a debate that continues to this day when he considered the almost 70-year-old Theodor Haering as a possible candidate for Tübingen honorary citizenship at a meeting of the culture committee based on an anonymous proposal . Shortly afterwards, in the autumn of 1954, things got turbulent in Tübingen. When Hans Gmelin prevailed against incumbent Mülberger (45.2 percent) in the runoff election for the new mayor on October 24th with 54.8 percent, a heated letter to the editor followed in the daily newspaper, particularly because of Gmelin's Nazi past.

Individual evidence

↑ Famous (and Notorious) Corporates: Mayor.
^ Tübingen University Archives - Memorial Calendar Archive. In: ub-archiv.uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
↑ The first Tübingen city ring race was a crowd puller: With 124 things through the southern part of the city. ( Memento from May 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Thomas Schlemmer, Hans Woller: Politics and Culture in the Federal State, 1949 to 1973. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, p. 187.
↑ ^a ^b Gabler: 50 years of the City Association for Sport Tübingen - 50 years of development of gymnastics, physical exercises and sport in Tübingen.
↑ Manfred Hantke: A speech made Theodor Haering famous and helped him to become an honorary citizen: Nothing, but also known nothing. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, December 20, 2008.
↑ Manfred Hantke: The philosopher as anonymous: Prof. Theodor Haering most likely recommended himself as an honorary citizen. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, December 20, 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Mülberger, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Lord Mayor of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1900
DATE OF DEATH	5th September 1983
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Famous (and Notorious) Corporates: Mayor.

[uni-tueb-Univer-2] Tübingen University Archives - Memorial Calendar Archive. In: ub-archiv.uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .

[3] The first Tübingen city ring race was a crowd puller: With 124 things through the southern part of the city. ( Memento from May 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Thomas Schlemmer, Hans Woller: Politics and Culture in the Federal State, 1949 to 1973. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, p. 187.

[Gabler-5] Gabler: 50 years of the City Association for Sport Tübingen - 50 years of development of gymnastics, physical exercises and sport in Tübingen.

[6] Manfred Hantke: A speech made Theodor Haering famous and helped him to become an honorary citizen: Nothing, but also known nothing. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, December 20, 2008.

[7] Manfred Hantke: The philosopher as anonymous: Prof. Theodor Haering most likely recommended himself as an honorary citizen. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, December 20, 2008.