Albert Finck
Albert Finck (born March 15, 1895 in Herxheim , † August 3, 1956 in Bad Wörishofen ) was Minister of Culture of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and in 1949 co-initiator of the third stanza of the Deutschlandlied as the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Life
Albert Finck graduated from high school in Speyer in 1914 . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. In 1920 he completed his studies in philosophy in Munich with a doctorate . He was a member of the Catholic student association KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich in the KV .
Finck began his political career in 1921 as party secretary of the Center Party in the Rhineland , and in 1922 he was a co-founder of the Palatinate Center Party. He was also a member of the center's Reich Party Committee, together with his brother, the member of the state parliament and pastor Johannes Finck (1888–1953). Until he was banned from his profession by the National Socialists in 1933 and was temporarily imprisoned, he was editor and editor-in-chief of the Neue Pfälzische Landeszeitung , which was finally banned in 1936.
1942 Finck substitute teacher and 1946 regular teacher for Latin and Greek at the Humanities College (since 1964 Elector Ruprecht-Gymnasium ) in Neustadt on the Wine Route.
In 1946 Finck was a co-founder of the CDU Pfalz . In 1948/49 he was appointed to the Parliamentary Council in Bonn , which drafted the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .
On August 9, 1949, Finck wrote an editorial in the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz with the title Das Deutschlandlied, five days before the first federal election . That evening he had the third verse of the song sung at a rally. The later Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl were among the 3,000 present .
From 1951 to 1956 Finck was a member of the CDU in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate and was a member of the state government under Prime Minister Peter Altmeier as Minister for Education and Culture for two legislative periods (until his death) .
Finck died suddenly while taking a spa stay in Bad Wörishofen. After his untimely death he was buried in the Hambach cemetery. The Dr. Albert Finck School was named after him there.
See also
Cabinet Altmeier II - Cabinet Altmeier III
literature
- Theo Schwarzmüller : Albert Finck and the national anthem . Plöger, 2002. ISBN 978-3-89857-135-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Albert Finck in the catalog of the German National Library
- State Archives Rhineland-Palatinate: Albert Finck
- Albert Fink and the national anthem
- Albert Finck, a founding father of the Federal Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the failure of democracy, The Palatinate at the end of the Weimar Republic, Gerhard Nestler, u. a., p. 267
Ernst Lotz (1946–1947) | Adolf Süsterhenn (1947–1951) | Albert Finck (1951–1956) | Eduard Orth (1956–1967) | Bernhard Vogel (1967–1976) | Hanna-Renate Laurien (1976–1981) | Georg Gölter (1981–1991) | Rose Götte (1991–1994) | Jürgen Zöllner (1994–2001) | Doris Ahnen (2001-2014) | Vera Reiss (2014–2016) | Stefanie Hubig (since 2016)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finck, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1956 |
| Place of death | Bad Wörishofen , Germany |