Egon Hugenschmidt (24 June 1925; Lörrach-Stetten - 11 April 2010) was a German

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

and mayor of

Lörrach Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

(1960–1984). He was a

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, created the twintown relation of Lörrach with

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and was awarded with the

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Literature

* Gerhard Moehring: ''Vögte und Bürgermeister von Lörrach.'' in: Walter Jung, Gerhard Moehring (Hrsg.): ''Unser Lörrach 1975. Eine Grenzstadt im Spiegel der Zeit'', Lörrach-Tumringen: Kropf & Herz 1975, Seite 35.

References

Jurists from Baden-Württemberg 1925 births 2010 deaths Mayors of places in Baden-Württemberg German prisoners of war in World War II Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-mayor-stub