Franz Götz (politician)


Franz Götz is a German politician. He was a member of the state parliament of Bavaria for the SPD from 1978 to 2003. In 2007, he left the SPD and joined the Free Voters.

Early life

Götz attended the Reuchlin Gymnasium school in Ingolstadt, where he obtained his Abitur. After leaving school, Götz studied Engineering in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Munich. He passed his general civil engineering examination in 1968 and obtained an additional qualification in civil engineering business administration in 1970. He was then employed in industry for two years. He then studied to be a teacher in the subjects Construction and Ergonomics at occupational schools, passing the first and second Staatsexamen in 1973 and 1975, respectively. Until 1978 he taught in Ingolstadt and then became a consultant ergonomist. In 1982 he was awarded a doctorate by the Technical University Munich.

Political career

Götz joined the SPD in 1970. From 1978 he was a member of the Ingolstadt town council. He was elected to the Bavarian state parliament on the SPD list in 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, and 1998. He was a member of the following committees:
In 2007, without laying down his town council mandate, Götz left the SPD and joined the parliamentary party of the Free Voters.

Commercial and social activities

Götz was the sole managing director of GERO Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Beziehungen in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zwischen Deutschland und Rumänien mbH, a company he founded in 2001. He liquidated this company 2010. In 2003 he was co-founder of the Hilfswerks des Lions Club Ingolstadt "Auf der Schanz" e.V. and was its president until 2009.

Honours

Götz is Roman Catholic, unmarried, and has one child.