Albert Pfitzer

Albert Pfitzer (right) with Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Alfred Kubel (1975)

Albert Pfitzer (born August 22, 1912 in Kirchen / Ehingen ; † July 27, 2000 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Career

Pfitzer passed his Abitur in 1931 at the humanistic Johann Vanotti Gymnasium in Ehingen . He studied law and political science in Tübingen , Munich and Berlin and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. The topic of his dissertation was: The advisory board idea and its implementation in the German municipal code, in the law on the order of national work and in the corporate structure of the economy . In Tübingen he became a member of the Catholic student association KStV Alamannia Tübingen , in 1933 he joined the SS and the NSDAP .

After the end of the Second World War he was a member of the government council and deputy district administrator at the district office in Ehingen, then from 1946 to December 1948 in the same position at the district office in Wangen in the Allgäu. At the beginning of 1950 he was appointed agent for the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern at the federal government in Bonn.

On June 15, 1951, he was appointed director of the Federal Council. He remained there until his retirement on June 30, 1978, after his term of office had previously been extended twice because they could not agree on a successor.

Honors

Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit

1976: Saarland Order of Merit
1978: Great Cross of Merit (1973) with star (1976) and shoulder ribbon (1978) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

International Biographical Archive 35/1978 of August 21, 1978

Web links

Commons : Albert Pfitzer - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Albert Pfitzer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ Adversarial Wind , in: Der Spiegel , October 10, 1966, p. 37.
^ Carl-Christian Kaiser: Director in the Scenes , in: Die Zeit , edition of February 3, 1978, p. 5.
^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 4 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 28, 1976, p. 67 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).
↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.

personal data
SURNAME	Pfitzer, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Churches / Ehingen
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 2000
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Adversarial Wind , in: Der Spiegel , October 10, 1966, p. 37.

[2] Carl-Christian Kaiser: Director in the Scenes , in: Die Zeit , edition of February 3, 1978, p. 5.

[svo-3] Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 4 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 28, 1976, p. 67 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).

[4] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.