Adalbert Frey

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Adalbert Frey (born September 14, 1922 in Cham (Upper Palatinate) , † January 12, 2006 there ) was a German entrepreneur in Eastern Bavaria .

Life

From 1933 Frey attended the Benedictine high school in Ettal and graduated in 1940 with the Abitur. After a short Reich labor service , he was drafted into the army on the Eastern Front . After the battle of Jassy-Kishinew in Rumania , the young lieutenant made his way to the German lines with a penetrated hand. At home the Gestapo investigated him because of his connection to the family of Franz Sperr , who was executed for complicity in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 . Frey continued to serve as a soldier until the end of the war and was taken prisoner of war . Frey had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Trifels Munich in the Cartell Association of German Catholic student associations since 1947 .

After studying economics with Adolf Weber in Munich and receiving his doctorate as Dr. oec. publ. With the title summa cum laude , Frey expanded his parents' department store in Cham and founded others in Schwandorf and Marktredwitz (a total of 500 employees). He headed the company for more than half a century. The application of new presentation and sales methods made him a respected retailer in Eastern Bavaria.

Awards

politics

Politically, Frey was always Christian-conservative, unlike his younger brother Gerhard Frey , who was chairman of the German People's Union .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on death in the Middle Bavarian
  2. ↑ Editorial obituary in the Upper Palatinate Network
  3. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Cham (Upper Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2006
Place of death Cham (Upper Palatinate)