Dionys Jobst

Dionys Jobst
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20 October 1969 – 26 October 1998
ConstituencyBurglengenfeld / Schwandorf
Chair of the Bundestag Committee on Transport
In office
1988–1998
Personal details
Born(1927-09-05)5 September 1927
Teublitz, Bavaria, Weimar Republic
Died25 March 2017(2017-03-25) (aged 89)
PartyChristian Social Union
EducationLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
OccupationLawyer, railway official, politician

Dionys Jobst (5 September 1927 – 25 March 2017) was a German lawyer, railway official and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He was a member of the Bundestag from 20 October 1969 to 26 October 1998, representing the Burglengenfeld constituency, later renamed Schwandorf, by direct mandate. He chaired the Bundestag's Committee on Transport from 1988 to 1998.

Early life and education

Jobst was born in Teublitz in the Upper Palatinate and attended an Oberrealschule. From 1943 to 1945 he served as a Flakhelfer, in the Reich Labour Service and in the Wehrmacht. He was wounded and taken prisoner. On 20 March 1944 he applied for membership of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and was admitted on 20 April 1944, with membership number 10,116,768.

He completed his Abitur in 1947 and studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München until 1950. He passed the first state law examination in 1951, received a doctorate in law in 1954 and passed the second state examination in 1955.

Civil service career

Jobst worked as a Regierungsassessor for the government of the Upper Palatinate in Regensburg and then as a legal officer at a district office. In January 1956 he joined the Deutsche Bundesbahn, where his last post was as a department head (Dezernent) at the Regensburg railway directorate.

He was a member of the supervisory board of Erste Bayerische Basaltstein AG Steinmühle, a member of the administrative board of the Deutsche Siedlungs- und Landesrentenbank and a board member of the German friends' association of Tel Aviv University.

Political career

Jobst joined the CSU in 1959. He was a member of the Teublitz town council from 1960 to 1991, the Burglengenfeld district council from 1960 to 1972 and the Schwandorf district council from 1972 to 1996. From 1965 to 1972 he chaired the CSU district association in Burglengenfeld.

Member of the Bundestag

Jobst won the Burglengenfeld constituency in the 1969 federal election and sat in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. He was re-elected at each election until 1994. He did not stand in the 1998 election and left the Bundestag on 26 October 1998.

He was president of the cross-party parliamentary group on railways and chairman of the German–Japanese parliamentary friendship group. In 1990 the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon.

On 9 July 1993 Bild published a front-page story stating that members of the Bundestag were considering leasing or buying Majorca from Spain for 50 billion marks and make it the country's seventeenth state. Jobst said, the idea was meant as a joke during a conversation about transport matters and that some readers took it literally.

Chair of the Committee on Transport

Jobst was a member of the Bundestag's Committee on Transport from 1980 and its chairman from 1988 until he left parliament in 1998. As chairman he presented the committee's reports and recommendations to the plenary.

Personal life and death

Jobst was Roman Catholic, married, and had three children. He lived in Teublitz and died on 25 March 2017 at the age of 89.

Honours

Literature

References

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  3. ↑ Gewalt, Helmut. "Angehörige des Bundestags I.–X. Legislaturperiode, ehemaliger NSDAP- und/oder Gliederungsmitgliedschaften" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Dr. iur. Dionys Jobst". CSU-Geschichte (in German). Archiv für Christlich-Soziale Politik, Hanns Seidel Foundation. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
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  6. 1 2 "Ordensüberreichung an den früheren BDI-Präsidenten Michael Rogowski" (PDF). Neues aus Japan (in German). Embassy of Japan in Germany. February 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  7. ↑ "Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer". BILDblog (in German). 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  8. 1 2 "Als aus Mallorca das 17. Bundesland wurde". Mallorca Magazin (in German). 4 July 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  9. ↑ "Mallorca noch immer nicht 17. Bundesland". Trierischer Volksfreund (in German). 22 August 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  10. ↑ "Hitliste der Sommerloch-Themen". newsroom.de (in German). dpa. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  11. ↑ "Ich habe verstanden: Das Sommerloch fällt aus". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  12. ↑ "Plenarprotokoll 13/181" (PDF). dserver.bundestag.de (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  13. ↑ "Trauer um Ex-MdB Dionys Jobst aus Teublitz". Radio Charivari (in German). March 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  14. ↑ "Traueranzeige Dionys Jobst". Mittelbayerische Zeitung (in German). 27 March 2017. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017.
  15. 1 2 3 Habel, Walter, ed. (1985). Wer ist wer? Das deutsche Who's Who (in German) (24th ed.). Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild. p. 585. ISBN 3-7950-2005-0.