Hermann Pünder
Hermann Josef Pünder ( born April 1, 1888 in Trier, † October 3, 1976 in Fulda ) was a German politician ( center, after 1945 CDU). He was the younger brother of the lawyer Werner Pünder.
Family
Hermann Pünder was in 1920 married to Magda, born Statz; his wife was the sister of Leo Statz (1898-1943) and cousin of Erich Klausener. The marriage produced four children Hermann, Adelheid, Winfried and Tilman come. His grandson is the lawyer Hermann Pünder
His brother was the lawyer Werner Pünder, whose son Reinhard Pünder was bishop of the diocese Brazilian Coroata.
Life and work
After attending school in Bad Münster Eifel Pünder studied law in Freiburg, Berlin and London. He graduated in 1911 with the degree of Dr. jur. from. In 1919 he became Councillor in the Reich Ministry of Finance and was subsequently 1926-1932 State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery under the chancellors Luther ( center ), Marx ( center ), Müller ( SPD) and Bruning ( center ). From 1932 to 1933 he served as District President of Munster. From 1939 he worked in the military district command VI in Münster.
Part-time, he taught partly coinciding with the also teaching there Theodor Heuss of the German University for Security Affairs in Berlin. After the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau for his participation in the conspiracy against Hitler. He belonged to a group of more or less prominent prisoners of the security forces of the Third Reich, which was transported transversely under adventurous circumstances by Germany and was liberated at the end of World War II in the South Tyrol from the Wehrmacht officer Wichard von Alvensleben.
From 1947 to 1973 Pünder officiated as Chairman of the Central Cathedral Association in Cologne from 1842. Pünder was with Magda, born Statz, married. The later city manager of Münster ( Westphalia), Tilman Pünder, is his youngest son. He was buried on the Melaten cemetery in Cologne.
Party
In the Weimar Republic Pünder was a member of the Centre Party. Pünder 1945 was one of the founders of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia. From October 15 until November 30, 1945 Pünder was the first chairman of the CDP (later CDU) in Münster.
Member of Parliament
1947 Pünder was elected as an MP in the Parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia, having previously belonged to the appointed parliament. 1949 and 1953, he won in the constituency Köln II a direct mandate for the German Bundestag, where he remained until 1957.
From 1949 to 1953 he was chairman of the Bundestag Committee on ERP issues and 20 March 1952 to the end of the first term of the Committee on local politics.
From 16 July 1952 to 1 July 1956, he was also a member of the European Parliament. At times, he is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council, where he in 1957 the Committee on Budget and intergovernmental work program launched.
Public offices
On April 1, 1932 Pünder was named after the Prussian coup as the successor to the dismissed Rudolf Amelunxen President of the Government of Munster, but offset already on 1 July 1933 by the Nazis into temporary retirement. In 1933 he was also appointed acting simultaneously for a short time President of the Province Westphalia. 1934 Pünder was finally dismissed from the civil service.
On November 20, 1945 Pünder was appointed by the British military government to the Mayor of Cologne. He held that post until 1948. In 1947 he was appointed Supreme Director ( = Chairman of the Board ) of the Economic Council Bizonia.
Honors
Pünder in 1953 awarded the Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne. 1967 this made him an honorary senator. In Bad Münstereifel, Cologne, Munich and Hamm roads are named after Pünder. He was an honorary member of AV Rheinstein Cologne in the CV and the student associations K.St.V. Askania Berlin and Freiburg Urach in CT.
Publications
- Policy in the Reich Chancellery. Records from the years 1929-1932, German publishing house, Stuttgart 1961.
- From Prussia to Europe. Memoirs, German publishing house, Stuttgart 1968.