Friedrich Florey

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Friedrich Florey (born November 2, 1892 in Grimma , † January 2, 1965 in Munich ) was a German politician ( LDP ). He was a member of the German People's Council and the Thuringian Parliament in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1950 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Florey was born in 1892 as the son of a fire insurance inspector and a royal Saxon captain a. D. born in Grimma, Saxony. Florey's mother came from the Saxon noble family von Carlowitz . He first attended the community school . After that Florey switched to a grammar school and later at the famous princes and State School St. Afra in Meissen , which he in 1912 with the Graduate left. Then Florey joined the traditional 101 grenadier regiment . He also served in this regiment in World War I , most recently as a first lieutenant . Shortly before the end of the war, Florey married Käthe Pick, the daughter of a Dresden factory owner, on September 14, 1918. After the end of the war, Florey completed an apprenticeship at the Hildesheimer Bank in Goslar . Between 1921 and 1923 he initially worked for the German-Czechoslovak Compensation Office in Berlin , and later for the Vogtland Cotton Weavers' Association. The Vogtland was to remain Florey's home for the next ten years, he got a job at Commerzbank in Plauen . From 1934 to 1944 he was director of the Commerzbank branch in Sonneberg . Florey was arrested several times from October 1944 onwards for refusing to separate and divorce his Jewish wife. He was relieved of his branch manager post and was later sent to various labor camps in Weißenfels or Halle-Grenzstraße. During the liberation by US troops, Florey was in the forced labor camp of the “Alwine” colliery in Bruckdorf near Halle .

In the summer of 1945 Florey was appointed head of the Sonneberg branch of the Thuringian Landesbank. In this position he was also of interest to municipal politics. Florey became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which he also represented in the Sonneberg city ​​council . Due to a high fluctuation in the LDP faction of the Thuringian state parliament, triggered by fleeing to western occupation zones but also by arrests, Florey moved up to the state parliament on October 7, 1948 as a member. At that time he was already a member of the 1st German People's Council , for which he was proposed by his party when it was constituted on March 18, 1948. As a result, he also belonged to the successor parliaments of the Second German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber . On June 5, 1950, Florey was granted the status of persecuted by the Nazi regime (VdN).

A little later, however, in August 1950, he fled to the Federal Republic . Florey first settled in Düsseldorf and from 1951 worked again for his old employer, Commerzbank. Until his retirement in 1958, he was director of the bank branch in Hagen, Westphalia . On March 20, 1951, the GDR withdrew its VdN recognition. Florey spent his retirement in September 1958 in Grainau , Bavaria , where he was buried.

Awards

  • Iron Cross II Class (World War I)
  • Iron Cross 1st Class (First World War)
  • Knight's Cross of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit and Albrecht

literature

personal data
SURNAME Florey, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florey, Friedrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD), MdL, member of the German People's Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1965
Place of death Munich