Friedrich Kempfler

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Funerary inscription - Eggenfelden Cemetery - Gladly

Friedrich "Fritz" Kempfler (born December 6, 1904 in Eggenfelden , † October 18, 1985 there ) was a German politician of the NSDAP and later the CSU .

Life

Kempfler, who was of Roman Catholic faith, attended the humanistic grammar schools in Metten and Passau and was accepted into the Bavarian Maximilianeum after graduating from high school in 1924 . He studied law in Heidelberg , Königsberg , Birmingham and Munich . After his traineeship exam (1928) and preparatory service, he passed the assessor exam in 1931 and joined the Bavarian civil service in the same year as a government assessor at the Lower Bavarian district government. After a short time as a councilor in the Eichstätt district , he switched to the service of the city of Fürth , where he became legal counsel in 1933 and first alderman and city treasurer in 1934. From 1939 to 1943 he did military service in the Wehrmacht , his last rank was first lieutenant. After a serious illness of actinomycosis , Kempfler, who was also an SS-Standartenführer, was retired as unfit for military service.

From 1938 to 1945 Kempfler was Lord Mayor of Bayreuth , but from 1939 to 1943 he was on leave due to military service. His predecessor was Karl Schlumprecht , who had to resign because of massive differences with the Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler . On April 17, 1945 he was arrested by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (CIC) in Bayreuth. From 1945 to 1948 he was interned in various camps as part of the denazification by the American occupation forces. After the Appeals Chamber Regensburg him on March 5, 1948 as less burdened panelist and imposed on him six months probation, he was released. After the probation period had expired, he settled in Eggenfelden as a lawyer in 1949.

Kempfler had been a member of the NSDAP since February 1, 1931 ( membership number 1,173,432). In 1949 he joined the CSU. He had been CSU district chairman in the Eggenfelden district since 1955 .

Kempfler was a member of the district council in the Eggenfelden district from 1956. He was a member of the German Bundestag from autumn 1957 to autumn 1976 . He represented the then Bundestag constituency parish churches in the Bundestag.

Before the vote on the 26th amendment to the Basic Law , he and his parliamentary group colleague Linus Memmel and SPD member Klaus-Peter Schulz made a declaration that he had to abstain from voting because he was the federal government's future responsibility for university construction support, but reject the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18 years. In the declaration he criticized what he saw as the nonsensical amalgamation of two objects that had no relation to each other. In March 1974 he then voted (contrary to the majority of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group) together with Memmel and Schulz, who had meanwhile converted to the CDU, also against lowering the age of majority to 18 years.

At times he was a member of the Assembly of the Western European Union , of which he chaired its committee of rules from 1966 to 1969 and 1974 to 1977.

Kempfler was married to Gerdi Kempfler (1925-2014) and had six children.

Honors

During the Second World War, Kempfler was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, the Air Defense Medal of Honor 2nd Level and the German-Italian Africa Medal .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bernd Mayer : Small Bayreuth City History . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2010, p. 120 .
  2. ^ Rainer Trübsbach : History of the City of Bayreuth . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, p. 335 .
  3. ↑ So he was a member of the third , fourth , fifth , sixth and seventh German Bundestag.
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel October 18, 1971: Later or so
  5. ↑ Bernd Mayer, Helmut Paulus: A city is denazified. The Gau capital Bayreuth in front of the Spruchkammer . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2008, ISBN 978-3-925361-67-8 , pp. 105 .
  6. ↑ Obituary in the Passauer Neue Presse
personal data
SURNAME Kempfler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kempfler, Fritz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP, CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenfelden
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1985
Place of death Eggenfelden