Lord Mayor
What was the position of Karl Scharnagl from 1926 to May 1945?
Karl Scharnagl Karl Scharnagl ( born 17 January 1881 in Munich ; died 6 April 1963 in Munich ) was a German politician . He was Lord Mayor of Munich from 1925 to 1933 and again from 1945 to 1948 , and in 1945 he co-founded the Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CSU ) . Life . Scharnagl first learned bakery and confectionery trades in the family business , but showed interest in a political career at an early age . His brother Anton Scharnagl was a clergyman . In 1911 , at just 30 years of age , he was a deputy of the Center Party in the second chamber of the Bavarian Parliament . In 1918 , after breaking off from the Centre Party , he was a member of the Bavarian Peoples Party , where he was a member of Parliament through two election periods 1920–1924 and 1928–1932 . In 1917 , he was also in the select committee of the Bavarian Association of the German Fatherland Party . 1919 to 1945 . In 1919 , Scharnagl was elected to the city council of Munich , 1925 vice mayor and in 1926 he was elected mayor of the city . As mayor , his attention was given to the expansion of the transport network as well as to housing . After the seizure of power by the Nazi Party in 1933 , and after several clashes he resigned in office and returned to his learned profession as a baker . Although he was not involved in the failed assassination attempt of 20 July 1944 , Scharnagl was arrested and detained in the Dachau concentration camp . After the liberation of the camp and the subsequent surrender of the German Wehrmacht , Scharnagl was placed by the US armed forces in May 1945 in the position as mayor of Munich . Together with Karl Meitinger he played an important role in the historicist reconstruction of the city center ( Scharnagl Plan ) and was the initiator of the Kulturbaufonds Munich . To commemorate his plans for a traffic circle , a section of Altstadtring was named after him . After 1945 . In the summer of 1945 Scharnagl was one of the leaders in the preparations for the founding of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CSU ) . Through his organization , a meeting of twelve persons was held on August 14 , which discussed the possibility of establishing a conservative-bourgeois party as a counterweight to the socialist camp . A committee to prepare the partys founding was used and adopted at a further meeting on September 12 , which is considered the actual founding meeting of the CSU , under the name of the Bavarian Christian Social Union . The statewide official founding as Christian Social Union , was on October 13 in Würzburg . On June 6 , 1946 Karl Scharnagl was officially voted in as mayor in his office , but two years later he was defeated by Thomas Wimmer ( SPD ) . He served one year as the second mayor , and then went into retirement in 1949 . On May 22 , 1945 Scharnagl received the allowance from the American military government the authority to re-establish the organization of the Red Cross for Bavaria . He called upon Adalbert Prince of Bavaria to become its president . On 1 June 1946 he was elected honorary president of the Bavarian Red Cross ( BRK ) and on 12 April 1947 he was elected president . 1948 Scharnagl co-founded the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the Bavarian Senate . He was a member of the Catholic fraternity K.S.St.V . Alemannia Munich , Kartellverband . On April 6 , 1963 Karl Scharnagl died . He was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich . External links . - Biography