Anton Fehr

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Anton Fehr

Anton Fehr (born December 24, 1881 in Lindenberg im Allgäu ; † April 2, 1954 there ) was a German agricultural economist and politician.

Life

Anton Fehr attended the Humanist Gymnasium Kempten and, after practicing agriculture, the Academy for Agriculture and Brewery Weihenstephan , then the agricultural department of the Technical University of Munich . Here he joined the Corps Guestphalia . After working in agriculture for a long time, he worked for a short time at the Laboratory for Soil Science and from 1904 to 1905 as an assistant at the Dairy Institute in Weihenstephan. From 1905 to 1909 he was an agriculture teacher in the Allgäu and from 1909 to 1917 district inspector for dairy farming in Upper Bavaria. In 1917 he was appointed dairy farming teacher at Weihenstephan University; from 1919 to October 1935 he was a full professor there. Fehr headed the dairy institute in Weihenstephan as a professor . From October 1915 to March 1922 he was a part-time director of the Bavarian state fat office in Munich.

Fehr was a member of the Bavarian Farmers' Union and from June 1920 to November 1933 a member of the Reichstag. He belonged to the first , second , third , fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Reichstag. From March 21 to November 24, 1922 he was Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture in the Wirth II cabinet . From June 1924 to July 1930 he was also Bavarian State Minister for Agriculture and Labor.

The striker launched a campaign against Fehr and claimed that he had been bribed as Reich Food Minister in 1922 . He was acquitted of this charge in a court case.

In October 1935 Fehr was dismissed as professor and head of the dairy institute in Weihenstephan. Gauleiter Adolf Wagner described this "throwing out" in a letter to Rudolf Hess dated October 28, 1935 as "injustice". In Weihenstephan, three other university professors were also dismissed because of their affiliation or proximity to Weimar parties.
On May 31, 1936, Fehr was forced to resign as first chairman of the German Dairy Industry Association. Two days after the assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944 he was, Otto Gessler and Andreas Hermes on Castle Achberg arrested in Lindau, later to Berlin ( Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse ) and then brought in the Ravensbruck concentration camp detained. A trial before the People's Court did not take place.

Fehr returned to Weihenstephan University in 1945.

Sennhof, school building built in 1929/1930 for the teaching and research institute for Emmental dairy in Weiler im Allgäu; later called the Dr. Anton Fehr School

Honors

portrait

  • Cast bronze medal 1951, 87.2 mm, Josef Bernhart fecit. Premium for excellent performance in the dairy industry from the German Agricultural Society. Front: Bearded neck portrait to the left, signed: BERNHART // Back: Farmer swinging a whip behind a team of oxen. Location: Deutsches Museum Munich, private collections

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang A. Herrmann (President of the Technical University of Munich): Speech (on June 1, 2010) on the anniversary of the revocation of the license to practice medicine for Jewish doctors (pdf), p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Fehr, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenberg in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1954
Place of death Lindenberg in the Allgäu