Fred Sagner

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Alfred "Fred" Sagner (born October 7, 1919 in Silesia ; † July 7, 2009 in Hennef ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and German military .

Life and work

Sagner served as a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

In the Federal Republic of Germany , Sagner was from 1949 to 1954 the personal assistant to Minister Jakob Kaiser in the Federal Ministry for all-German issues . He then worked from 1954 to 1956 as a specialist in a department of the ministry. The foundation of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany goes back to designs by Alfred Sagner.

From March 1956, Sagner served in the rank of captain in the internal leadership subdivision of the newly created Bundeswehr . In May 1957 Franz Josef Strauss brought him to the Federal Ministry of Defense as head of his ministerial office . In 1959 he was given command of a garrison . With the rank of major , Sagner worked from 1962 as a military attaché at the German embassy in Seoul in South Korea . From 1966 to the autumn of 1967 he was a military attaché in Saigon, South Vietnam . After a last NATO assignment in Mannheim, he retired as a colonel in the general staff . Sagner lived withdrawn in Bonn until 2009.

He was married to Gisela Sagner (née Bothfeld) and had two sons.

Political party

Sagner joined the CDU in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 . From 1946 to March 1948 he was chairman of the CDU district association Berlin-Tempelhof . At that time, Sagner was mainly involved in the youth sector. Between March 1946 and March 1947 he was an assessor and finally chairman of the youth committee of the state executive committee of the CDU Berlin . From September to December 1947 Sagner was then an assessor on the main board of the CDU and from July 1947 to January 1948 chairman of the youth department of the main board of the CDU. In 1947 he was one of the founding members of the Junge Union Deutschlands. After the follower of Jakob Kaiser had been removed from all his posts by the Soviet military administration in Germany in January 1948 , Sagner Kaiser followed to West Germany .

In protest against the prohibition of the Junge Union in the Soviet occupation zone, he was elected chairman of the Junge Union Deutschlands in 1948 to succeed Bruno Six . However, after only a year he resigned.

Volunteering

On February 20, 1959, Sagner founded the anti-communist association Rettet die Freiheit together with the CDU politician Rainer Barzel and the trade unionist Otto Stolz . He was one of the three chairmen and co-editors of the Rotbuch I and the Rotbuch II of the association.

Following his professional activity in Asia, Sagner co-founded the German-Korean Society.

He was also a co-founder of the traditional community of Silesian troops. The memorial cross of former Silesian troops , which was donated in 1995 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces in the House of Silesia in Heisterbacherrott and chaired by Colonel a. D. Arthur Jüttner and first lieutenant ret. D. Münnich was awarded to numerous meritorious Silesian military.

Honors

Sagner was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, the Infantry Assault Badge, the Wound Badge in black and the German Sports Badge, among other things during World War II. In addition to numerous foreign orders and awards, he was awarded the Bismarck Order in silver and gold by Ferdinand Fürst von Bismarck.

supporting documents

literature

  • Michael Richter: The Eastern CDU 1948–1952 between resistance and conformity. 2nd Edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0945-2 , page 417 (at the same time: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1988/89)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. Alfred Sagner passed away , In: The Decision No. 09/10 2009, September / October 2009, page 54, accessed on December 26, 2009
  2. ↑ a b c Freedom saved . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1959, pp. 17 ( online - September 30, 1959 ).
  3. ↑ a b With swimming pool . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1960, p. 19 ( online - March 11, 1960 ).
  4. ↑ A look through the bamboo curtain . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1964, pp. 24 ( Online - Dec. 2, 1964 ).
  5. ↑ ALFRED SAGNER . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1962, pp. 89 ( Online - Mar. 14, 1962 ).
  6. ↑ Yellow cap . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1974, p. 68 ( Online - May 20, 1974 ).
  7. ↑ a b Wolfgang Buschfort: Parties in the Cold War. The east offices of the SPD, CDU and FDP. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 57 (note 211). ISBN 3-86153-226-3
personal data
SURNAME Say, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sagner, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2009
Place of death Bonn