Fritz Neumayer

Fritz Neumayer ( born July 29, 1884 in Kaiserslautern, † 12 April 1973 in Munich) was a German politician (FDP, later FVP ). He was from 1947 to 1948 Minister of Economy and Transport of the State of Rhineland- Palatinate, 1952-1953 Federal Minister of Housing and 1953-1956 Federal Minister of Justice.

Education and work

After graduation Neumayer first began to study medicine, but then graduated in law in Würzburg, Berlin, Leipzig and Strasbourg, which he finished with the first and 1910 with the second legal state examination. In 1906 he became a member of the Corps Rhenaniastraße Würzburg. Since 1911 he worked as a lawyer in Kaiserslautern. In 1945 he was appointed President of the District Court of Kaiserslautern. After his resignation from the ministerial office in 1956 Neumayer was first Chairman of the Pfaff AG, later Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Family

Neumayer comes from a long-established Palatine family of lawyers with a liberal tradition. Already his grandfather and his father sat for the National Liberals in the Bavarian Parliament. His great-uncle, the naturalist Georg von Neumayer, considered the founder of Antarctic research.

Neumayer was married and had four children.

Party

After the end of World War II he joined the FDP. Neumayer belonged to Thomas Dehler and Alfred Onnen to the internal party commission of inquiry that investigated the Naumann affair of 1952. Early 1956 he left the Liberals with the other FDP Federal Ministers and was a member of the newly established Free People's Party ( FVP ), with whom he joined it after over a year of DP.

Member of Parliament

Neumayer was 1946/47, Member of the Consultative Assembly of the state Rhineland- Palatinate, where Chairman of the Joint Group of the Social Liberal parties Liberal Party and People's League, which had competed in Rheinhessen and the Palatinate in the Rhineland or separated. The Rhineland- Palatinate state parliament he was a member from 1947 to 1951. Until July 9, 1947, when he was appointed state minister, he remained leader of the liberal faction. Then his seat in Parliament until 9 April 1948 brought to rest.

From 1949 to 1957 Neumayer was a member of the German Bundestag. On February 23, 1956, he left together with the so-called " Euler - group " the FDP parliamentary group and initially belonged to the Bundestag as non-attached Members. On March 15, 1956 he became a member of the educated of the Euler group " Democratic Association ", which is renamed on 26 June 1956 in FVP Parliamentary Group on March 14, 1957 and eventually formed the DP / FVP fraction with the DP.

Fritz Neumayer is always drawn on a state list of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Bundestag.

Public offices

July 9, 1947 to April 9, 1948 Neumayer was Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland- Palatinate in the files kept by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier state government.

On 15 July 1952 he was appointed as successor to the late Eberhard Wildermuth as Federal Minister for Housing in the led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer government.

After the parliamentary elections in 1953, he was appointed on 20 October 1953 to the Federal Minister of Justice. In this capacity, he was involved mainly for penal reform. In a cabinet reshuffle, he retired on 16 October 1956 from the federal government for the past eight years older Adenauer Neumayer deemed too old for this office.

Honors

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