His sayings are legendary: mourning for former mayor Lorenz Lang

Most knew him as "Lang Lenz" and his sayings are legendary. The former mayor of Straßlach-Dingharting, Lorenz Lang, recently died at the age of 83.

Straßlach-Dingharting - On his 80th birthday, three years ago now, he had said to the birthday guests: "Be as good as me, then you will also be so old." Now Lorenz Lang, mayor of Straßlach-Dingharting and that walking hinge of the two parishes, died. It is thanks to him, among other things, that the smallest municipality in the district has remained the most idyllic. Because he always "kicked out" developers who gave him the handle. Because he was of the opinion: "If contractors determine politics, then it stops."

Lorenz Lang grew up on a farm in Deigstetten, which is a district of Straßlach. He later moved to Dingharting, which is why he was Straßlacher and Dinghartinger in one. And so that after he had ruled Dingharting for six years, he was able to remain mayor when the two areas were merged in the area reform. He remained in office until 1988. By the way, his main job was as a bank director.

The “Lang Lenz”, as everyone called him, and many of them, called him, had quite a bit of excitement to deal with as the town hall boss. Perhaps the greatest excitement occurred right at the beginning of his term in office: 1972, when none other than the President of The Gambia came to Dingharting for a visit. "Mir ham a Musi, bring me something tame," Lang had said at the time. He had no reservations about being able to entertain the guest well. Ultimately, the girls from the town of Espalier stood, all in dirndls, with flowers in hand, afterwards there was a meal, which Lang had to eat while standing, due to lack of space. And when District President Deinlein wanted to speak, he picked up the microphone himself. "Here I am elected, right," he said.

There was no shortage of such and similar anecdotes on his 80th birthday. Some told how he simply brought a carpet from home because his people were freezing in the town hall in Dingharting. The others remembered that he quickly said to a sculptor who wanted to put a two-meter fence around his property so that he could work outdoors with his female models: “If the women are pretty, everyone likes to look anyway , they are bad, everyone is looking away anyway. "

He was a shirt-sleeved mayor who “always remained a philanthropist,” says current city councilor Hans Sienerth (party-free), his after-after-successor. "You always knew what you were doing with him, he was thoroughly honest."

And until the end, "Lenz", who raised two children with his wife Erna and was a fourfold grandfather, was interested in politics on the doorstep. Some time ago he had made it a habit to call Sienerth on Mondays. On the one hand to verify what he had picked up at the regulars' table after the church on Sunday, and on the other hand to comment on what he had perceived. For example, if the community had "bought a new building car again".

And when six years ago in Straßlach-Dingharting the CSU made efforts to convert the office of mayor, which has meanwhile been carried out full-time, back into a voluntary job, he said to Sienerth: “I'll tell you one thing if this happens , I run again. But only if you are my manager. "