Bruno Becher

Bruno Becher (born December 12, 1898 in Wendlingen , † April 21, 1961 in Mayen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ).

Life

After attending the Wendlingen elementary school and graduating from high school in Münstereifel in 1916, Becher did military service in the First World War . In 1919 Becher began studying law and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Munich, which he completed in 1925 with the second state examination in law. He then entered the legal civil service as a court assessor in Aachen and Mayen . In 1926 he was admitted to the Stones and Earth Industry Association and a year later as a lawyer. 1930 to 1933 he was chairman of the AOK Mayen. From 1933 to 1939 and since 1945, Becher worked as an independent lawyer in Mayen. From 1937 to 1939 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Vereinigte Moselschiefergruben AG in Hausen. From 1940 to 1941 he was the managing director of the basalt lava sales group and a lawyer. From 1941 to 1945 he did military service again. He became a first lieutenant and was used, among other things, to fight gangs in the Balkans.

After the war, he was a member and deputy chairman of the board of Südwestfunk (SWF) from 1952 to 1959 , a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Pfandbriefanstalt , and of the supervisory board of Nürburgring GmbH. Since 1920 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Novesia Bonn .

politics

In 1933 Becher became a member of the NSRB , in 1936 a member of the NSDAP and in 1937 a member of the NSV .

After the Second World War , Becher joined the FDP in 1946 and was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1951 to 1960 . After the formation of a Christian-liberal coalition, on June 13, 1951, Becher was appointed Minister of Justice to succeed Adolf Süsterhenn in the government of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Peter Altmeier . He was a member of the Federal Council and from 1958 to 1959 chairman of the Legal Committee of the Federal Council. In 1959 he was a member of the 3rd Federal Assembly.

After a publication in the magazine Der Spiegel about a controversial participation of the Lavabergs Herchenberg near Burgbrohl , Becher left the state government on May 19, 1959 and was replaced as Justice Minister by Wilhelm Westenberger . Becher had interfered in the negotiations for the sale of the lava mountain from Brohltal AG and de facto acquired the mountain himself. He used his position as minister to gradually secure the mining rights and earn money as a tenant on the mountain.

Bruno Becher died a short time later, on April 21, 1961, of a heart attack on the way home from his hunting lodge near Mayen.

See also

• Cabinet Altmeier II
• Cabinet Altmeier III

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 45.
• Bruno Becher , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1961 of July 17, 1961, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bruno Becher: Politician. In: International Biographical Archive 30/1961. Munzinger Archive, July 17, 1961, accessed on November 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 1 : Aachen - Braniss. . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-25031-2 , p. 455 , col. 2 ( books.google.de [accessed November 15, 2014]).
3. ↑ About us. Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} MINISTER: The Lava Mountain. In: Der Spiegel, 17/1959. April 22, 1959, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Died: Bruno Becher. In: Der Spiegel, 19/1961. May 3, 1961, accessed November 15, 2014 .