Arnold Fratzscher

Arnold Fratzscher (born March 15, 1904 in Boitin ; † February 23, 1987 in Bad Münder ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Fratzscher studied law in Leipzig, Tübingen, Munich and Rostock. In 1933 he had to retire from the Mecklenburg civil service as a court assessor, he was then a lecturer at the Volkspflegerschule of the Stephansstift in Hanover and later head of this school. During the Nazi period he belonged to the so-called Confessing Church , which had defended the autonomy of the evangelical church institutions vis-à-vis the Nazi state, and counted himself as part of the conservative resistance against the Nazi regime. To what extent this self-assessment is correct, statements like the one from 1934 in the monthly messenger from St. Stephen's Foundation, for which he was responsible, make it questionable:

“ We are <the> welfare school of an evangelical deaconry institution that wants to educate its students as real National Socialists and obedient subjects of the Third Reich and at the same time as serious Evangelical Lutheran Christians. "

Also in 1934, together with Friedrich Ehringhaus, he published a popular edition of the "Hitler Laws", in which the first Nazi regulations such as the " Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Offspring " and the " Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service " were distributed.

He was also active in the church after the war and was a member of the State Brotherhood Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover and, until 1950, a member of the Reich Brotherhood Council of the Confessing Church. From 1960 to 1970 he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the NDR and temporarily its chairman.

politics

Fratscher has been involved in the Christian Social People's Service since 1930 . Together with Adolf Cillien , Fratzscher was one of the Protestants in the province of Hanover who spoke out in favor of a non-denominational Christian party and was consequently also one of the co-founders of the local CDU on November 18, 1945. At that time, the newly founded party was still called CDP. When the call for the merger of the Christian Democratic Union in the British zone was made on March 1, 1946, Fratzscher and Wilhelm Naegel were among the signatories for the Hanover regional association.

From May 1946 to November 1969 he was Secretary General of the CDU in the state of Hanover.

MP

As a replacement for the late Arnold Kuntscher, Fratzscher was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the 1st electoral period from September 23, 1949 to April 30, 1951. He was again from the 3rd to the 6th electoral period from May 6, 1955 to June 20 1970 Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. He was chairman of the welfare committee from February 28, 1950 to April 30, 1951. From March 28, 1951 for one month to the end of the electoral term and again from May 9, 1955 to May 5, 1959, he was chairman of the DP / CDU parliamentary group .

Honors

Fratzscher was the holder of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Literature by Arnold Fratzscher

• The CDU in Lower Saxony : Democracy from the very beginning, Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, 1971.

source

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 105.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ today part of the municipality Tarnow (Mecklenburg)
2. ↑ See the entry of Arnold Fratzscher's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Stöss, Richard (Ed.): Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980, vol. 1, Opladen 1986, p. 498 (contribution by Ute Schmidt).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hartwig Hohnsbein in Ossietzky No. 16/2010, p. 589
5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) And a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 .