Robert Frederick Froehlke
Robert Frederick Fröhlke (* October 15, 1922 in Neenah, Wisconsin ) is a retired American politician. He was the July 1971 to May 1973 Army Secretary of State of the United States.
Career
Robert Fröhlke was born on October 15, 1922 in Neenah. He attended high school in Marshfield. He then joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and served in the European theater of war in the infantry. He left the army in 1946 in the rank of Captain.
Fröhlke visited after his service in the army, the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1949 and received his diploma. He married Nancy Barnes and practiced in Madison as a lawyer in the law firm of MacDonald and MacDonald 1949-1950. From 1950 to 1951 he was a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School. After his time at the University, he joined the legal department of the Sentry Insurance Company in Stevens Point and went on there. He worked there from 1951 until 1969.
From 30 January 1969 to 30 June 1971, he served as Secretary of State ( Assistant Secretary of Defense) in the Ministry of Defence operates. He was responsible for all the information gathering of the Authority. transmitted. In addition, he was also chairman of the Defense Investigative Review Council.
From July 1, 1971 to May 4, 1973, he was Secretary of State Army ( Secretary of the Army ). Under his leadership, the remaining Army units were withdrawn from Vietnam, changed the recruitment of voluntary service, dissolved the government of the Ryukyu Islands, abandoned the administrative role of civil defense, as well as the systems for biological warfare of the Army, in accordance with international agreements, closed.
Fröhlke came back in 1973 to take up his work at the Sentry Corporation again. This, he performed from 1973 to 1979 as President of. In addition, he was president of the American health insurance association ( Health Insurance Association of America ) 1975-1980, and President of the American Life Insurance Council ( American Council of Life Insurance ), between 1980 and 1982. Thereafter, he was chairman of the similar life Insurance Association of the United States ( Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States ) 1982-1987. In 1987 he became President and CEO of IDS Mutual Fund Group.