Friedrich Fick

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Friedrich Fick

Friedrich Wilhelm Fick (born July 9, 1863 in Zurich , † March 8, 1955 in Würzburg ) was a German politician (DDP).

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Fick was born the son of the physiologist Adolf Fick . After attending grammar school from 1872 to 1880, Fick studied law in Würzburg (1880–1881, 1882, 1883–1884), Hanover (1881–1882), Zurich (1882–1883, 1884). He submitted his dissertation in Zurich in 1884. From 1884 to 1890 he worked as a businessman (buyer) in London, then until 1897 as a branch manager of the Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Woolen System Company Ltd. in Sydney and Melbourne . In 1894 he married. The marriage had three children. From 1897 to 1904 Fick sat on the board of the Rheinische Schuckert-Gesellschaft AG in Mannheim . He then held office from 1904 to 1931 as director or general director of the high-speed press factory Koenig & Bauer AG in Würzburg. He was also chairman of the Association of German Printing Machinery Manufacturers and the Association of German Rotary Machine Manufacturers.

In 1915 and 1916 Fick took part in the First World War, in which he was deployed as a first lieutenant in Alsace-Lorraine and on the Somme . He then became deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Würzburg. He also became a member of the committee of the Bavarian Association of Industrialists and the Reich Committee of German Industry. He also became a board member of the North Bavarian State Association of the Hansa Federation .

After the war, Fick joined the German Democratic Party (DDP). In the first Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic in June 1920 , Fick moved into the German parliament on the DDP's proposal for a Reich election , to which he was a member until May 1924.

As a publicist, Fick presented writings such as The legal character of the life insurance contract , international protection against defamation and abuse from people to people or state to state , standardization of paper formats and Adolf Fick's curriculum vitae, as well as book reviews in the magazine for the entire commercial law .

Trivia

In Würzburg a street is named after Friedrich Fick; some residents advocate a renaming because they are exposed to stupid comments about the name. Olaf Przybilla ironically suggested in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Willy Popp could be honored instead .

Fonts

  • The question of the check legislation on the European continent. With special consideration of the Swiss, German, Austrian and French conditions, with reference to English law and the other foreign laws and customs , Zurich 1894.
  • Reich unity or federalism , Nuremberg [1925].
  • Report on international social policy , Berlin 1926.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wuerzburgwiki.de/wiki/Friedrich_Fick , accessed on October 15, 2014
  2. ↑ According to Who is who? , 1955, p. 270, his wife had died by 1955.
  3. ^ "Würzburg and the unloved Fick-Straße" , www.sueddeutsche.de from January 23, 2017, accessed on the same date
personal data
SURNAME Fuck, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fick, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1955
Place of death Wurzburg