Anton Pfeiffer

This article deals with the CSU politician and diplomat Anton Pfeiffer (1888–1957). For the CDU politician (* 1937) see Anton Pfeifer .

Anton Pfeiffer (born April 7, 1888 in Rheinzabern ; † July 20, 1957 in Munich ) was a German politician ( BVP , CSU ) and diplomat .

Life

Family grave in the Winthir cemetery

Anton Pfeiffer was born as the son of the Catholic district teacher Franz Xaver Pfeiffer and Anna Maria Barbara Bosch and had thirteen siblings, including the politician Maximilian Pfeiffer (1875-1926), the archivist Albert Pfeiffer (1880-1948) and the diplomat Peter Pfeiffer (1895 -1978). He was married to Elsa Pfeiffer, née Waldvogel (1890–1976).

Anton Pfeiffer studied modern foreign languages ​​at the commercial college in Munich, where he was a student of Moritz Julius Bonn . Pfeiffer was an active member of the Catholic Student Union Ottonia in the KV . He completed his studies with a doctorate to Dr. phil. from Josef Schick . From 1914 to 1918 Pfeiffer taught at the Gisela Realschule in Munich. From 1918 he was General Secretary of the Bavarian People's Party. In 1927 he founded an American school in Munich called the American Institute. From 1928 to 1933 he was MdL Bavaria . From 1939 to 1945 he worked as a teacher in the Bavarian school service.

In 1945, as a founding member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, he became a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly. In the same year he took over the management of the Bavarian State Chancellery as State Councilor . In 1946 he was appointed special minister for denazification in Bavaria . From 1946 to 1950 he was State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery.

In 1947 he was one of the initiators of the Ellwanger Kreis .

In 1948 the Constitutional Convention on Herrenchiemsee elected him chairman. In the parliamentary council he was then elected chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. From 1950 to 1951 he served as consul general in Belgium , after which he was German ambassador there from 1951 to 1954 .

contacts

In the Ellwanger district, 27 Tat-Christians met who felt obliged to re-Christianize schools and education. Some members were: the Kiel provost Hans Asmussen , the CDU Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier , the CDU Bundestag member Bruno Heck , the Bonn military bishop Hermann Kunst , the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Education Werner Schütz , the Rottenburg auxiliary bishop Wilhelm Sedlmeier and the Bonn Justice State Secretary Walter Bouquet .

Through the American Institute, Anton Pfeiffer had good contacts to James K. Pollock (1898–1968), political scientist and founder of the Stuttgart State Council, and the adviser to the military government Karl Loewenstein (1891–1973)

Publications

• Thomas Hope's "Anastasius" and Lord Byron's "Don Juan". Dissertation University of Munich 1913.

Honors

• 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Christiane Reuter-Boysen:  Pfeiffer, Franz Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 314 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Anton Pfeiffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anton Pfeiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Ellen Latzin: American Institute, Munich , in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Heinz Debus (Ed.): The State Archives Speyer . Publications of the Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Volume 40, Koblenz 1987, ISBN 3-922018-54-8 . On Albert Pfeiffer and his brothers p. 31 f.
2. ^ Moritz Julius Bonn: This is how you make history. Balance of a life . List, Munich 1953, p. 402.