August-Martin Euler

August-Martin Euler (born May 9, 1908 in Kassel ; † February 4, 1966 in Brussels ) was a German politician ( FDP , later FVP and German party ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Euler studied law in Marburg and then worked in various legal positions from 1936 to 1944. Since 1939, as legal counsel for IG Farben, he was the general agent for chemistry in Berlin. Euler, who had completed training with the Schutzpolizei , was drafted on November 29, 1944 as a police officer for the Waffen SS in the SS Police Regiment 2 Brandenburg. In 1945/46 he was district administrator in the Hersfeld district . He then worked as a lawyer. In 1953 he belonged to Club 53 around Arnold Bode . In September 1958 he became Director General of the EURATOM Utilities Department . He was the father of the later Hamburg FDP parliamentary group leader Maja Stadler-Euler .

Political party

In 1945 Euler was one of the founders of the Liberal Democratic Party , later the FDP, in Kassel and then on December 29, 1945 in all of Hesse. In 1946 he was first state manager and in June 1947 state chairman of the FDP Hesse as the successor to Georg Ludwig Fertsch . He kept the office until he left the party. At the founding party convention of the FDP in Heppenheim , Euler was elected to the inner board of the federal party. At the federal party congress of the FDP in Bremen in 1949 he wanted to push through a commitment to rearmament, but failed because of the anti-militarist mood of the majority of the delegates at the time. At the meeting of the Federal Main Committee of the FDP on September 21, 1950, he spoke out in favor of resolving not only the incompatibility of membership in the FDP with membership in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime , but also with membership in the German Peace Society . While the first demand was passed with a clear majority because of the decisive influence of the KPD on the VVN, the motion regarding the peace society failed, after all, Harald Abatz, an FDP member, was the federal chairman of the DFG. At the federal party congress in Munich in September 1951, he ran against the previous deputy federal chairman Hermann Schäfer and lost just 114 to 139 votes.

Together with Hans-Joachim von Merkatz , Euler came out in 1950 for the rigorous end of denazification . Both endeavored to exonerate the so-called main culprits and accused of all sanctions that were current or threatened at the time.

Euler was one of the strictest representatives of a civic bloc orientation of the FDP . In 1952, for example, he called for the Baden-Württemberg FDP / DVP , whom he referred to as demi-Marxists , to be excluded from the party after Reinhold Maier had entered into a coalition with the SPD in the south-western state . The change in coalition of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1956 from the CDU to the SPD ultimately led to a group of FDP members and MPs under Euler's leadership separating from the party in February 1956 and forming the FVP.

With the FVP, Euler came to the DP in March 1957.

MP

Euler was a member of the state parliament in Hesse in 1946/47, 1950/51 and 1954/55 . In 1946/47 and 1954/55 he was also chairman of the parliamentary group there .

From 1947 to 1949 he sat for Hessen in the Economic Council of the United Economic Area , in which he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. Euler was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1958. In the 1949 federal election he was elected directly to parliament in the Fritzlar-Homberg constituency with 27.8% of the vote, but with a clear lead over the SPD candidate (22.9%), and was able to maintain the constituency in 1953 . In 1949 he first spoke out in favor of a joint parliamentary group with the German party . Initially deputy parliamentary group chairman, he was elected chairman of the FDP parliamentary group on January 10, 1951 with 23 to 22 votes against the previous incumbent Hermann Schäfer . A year later, however, he no longer ran for the office. In the first electoral term he was also chairman of the expert committee for the restructuring of the federal territory , in which he represented far-reaching demands for a reduction in the number of German states. In 1953 he was again deputy group chairman.

Together with the so-called Ministerial Wing of the Liberals, Euler, after which these 16 members were also called the Euler Group , left the FDP parliamentary group on February 23, 1956 and founded the FVP, which merged with the German party a year later. In 1957 he entered parliament on the Hessian state list of the DP. For the DP / FVP parliamentary group he became chairman of the Bundestag committee on nuclear issues towards the end of the electoral term. He resigned his mandate on September 10, 1958 when he moved to EURATOM. He was a member of the first Federal Assembly in 1949 and the second in 1954 .

See also : Election of the German Federal President in 1949  and Election of the German Federal President in 1954

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 243–244 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 123.
• August Martin Euler , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/1966 of March 28, 1966, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• "Euler, August Martin". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Euler, August-Martin . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ebbinghaus to Eyrich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 282 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 201 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
2. ↑ Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 31, 39 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
3. ↑ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= Association for Democratic Openness: DemOkrit. Volume 3). M-Press Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , p. 475.
4. ↑ On this Norbert Frei : Past Policy. The beginnings of the Federal Republic and the Nazi past. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-41310-2 , p. 55, p. 58-61, p. 67 and p. 69.
5. ↑ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= Association for Democratic Openness: DemOkrit. Volume 3). M-Press Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , p. 528.
6. ↑ Restructuring / federal states - It remains as it is . In: Der Spiegel . tape 50 , December 7, 1955 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 25, 2016]).