Franz Beyrich

Franz Beyrich (born February 10, 1887 in Hamburg ; † February 27, 1961 there ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

Life and work

Before 1933, Beyrich, who belonged to the Roman Catholic minority in Hamburg, was an administrative employee in the Hamburg social welfare office. When the National Socialists came to power , he was dismissed and from then on worked in the private sector. After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested and imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp .

Political party

Before 1933 Beyrich was a member and in the period 1925/26 he was also chairman of the Hamburger Zentrum-Landesverband. At the end of August 1945 he joined the working group of Christian-Democratic Groups (also known as the Christian Union ) in Hamburg and in September 1945 was involved in the fruitless talks about the establishment of a comprehensive bourgeois party. On October 1, 1945, he was elected provisional state chairman at the founding meeting of the Christian Democratic Party , which later became the Hamburg CDU regional association. From 1946 to 1949 he was deputy state chairman. In 1959 the state party conference elected him honorary chairman of the Hamburg CDU.

MP

Franz Beyrich was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1929 to 1933 and from 1946 to 1953 . In 1930/31 and from 1946 to 1951 he served as Vice President of the City Council.

Web links

• Findbuch 01-804, Franz Beyrich, Archive for Christian-Democratic Politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V, Sankt Augustin 2015 (PDF, 198 kB; last accessed on July 16, 2018)

literature

• Christian Sonntag: Media careers: biographical studies of post-war journalists in Hamburg 1946–1949 . Dissertation, Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89975-577-4 , p. 146 ( online ).