Carl Wirths (December 10, 1897 – June 16, 1955 in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was a representative of the

Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament (''Landtag'') of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which convenes in the state capital of Düsseldorf, in the eastern part of the district of Hafen. The parliament i ...

from October 2, 1946 until September 1, 1949 and the national

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from 1949 until his death.

Life and career

Wirths was born in 1897 in

Elberfeld Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929. History The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was in a docu ...

, today a suburb of Wuppertal. After attending elementary school and high school he completed an apprenticeship in construction. He along with his father in 1924, he founded the construction company "Carl Wirth & Co.", which existed until its dissolution in May 2004. Wirths was also the publisher of the '' Westdeutsche Rundschau'', a newspaper close to the FDP in

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

. Wirths joined the Free Democratic Party after its formation in 1946 and represented the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from October 2, 1946 until September 1, 1949. From 1945 he a member of the Advisory Board of the City of

and was from 1946 to 1951 and 1952 to 1955 a city councilor there. In the 1949 general elections, Wirths was elected to the

to which he belonged until his death in 1955, elected successively in 1949 and 1953. From 1949 to 1953 and 9 November 1954 until his death he was Deputy. Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Construction and Land Law and of 9 February 1950 until his death, served as. Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Reconstruction and Housing Agency.

Publications

* Carl Wirths, Hermann Weitnauer: ''Das Wohnungseigentumsgesetz'', 1. Auflage 1952, Vahlen Verlag. (erscheint derzeit in 9. Auflage unter dem Titel ''"Weitnauer. Wohnungseigentumsrecht"'')

Literature

* Friedrich Henning, ''Carl Wirths und das Wohnungseigentumsgesetz von 1951'', in: ''Geschichte im Westen'', Band 9, 1994, Seiten 183 bis 196. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wirths, Carl 1897 births 1955 deaths Free Democratic Party (Germany) politicians Politicians from Wuppertal