Fritz-Rudolf Schultz

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Fritz-Rudolf Schultz (born February 19, 1917 in Munich ; † March 2, 2002 in Gau-Bischofsheim ) was a German officer and politician ( FDP ). He was u. a. Member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag and the German Bundestag . From 1970 to 1975 he was the defense commissioner of the German Bundestag .

Life

Fritz-Rudolf Schultz was born the son of an officer. After graduating from high school in Schondorf in 1935 , he joined the Wehrmacht . Initially he served in the intelligence service until he was promoted to lieutenant in the 3rd Panzer Regiment in 1937 . In 1938 he was released to the family estate.

At the beginning of the war he was drafted into the 35th Panzer Regiment , with whom he was deployed as an orderly officer on the western and eastern fronts. He was promoted to first lieutenant and used as intelligence officer and adjutant . In 1942 he was promoted to captain with the takeover of a battalion command . In 1943 he was awarded the German Cross in Gold. After fighting in Ukraine in 1944 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . In 1944 he was promoted to Major in the Reserve and was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. In 1945 he was a staff officer in the Army Group A . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the United States .

After the war, he initially managed the wine and sparkling wine estate of his parents Colonel Schultz-Werner in Gau-Bischofsheim . In 1953 he also became Vice President of the Rhenish Farmers' Association, which he had co-founded in 1948. He was also a member of the German Atlantic Society .

politics

Schultz was a member of the municipal council in Gau-Bischofsheim from 1947 and a member of the district council in the Mainz district from 1952 . In 1951 he joined the FDP.

On October 6, 1953, he replaced the resigned MP Karl Lahr in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , where he became a member of the viticulture and wine industry committee. In the state elections in 1955 , he won a mandate and was then elected second vice president of the state parliament. In addition, from 1955 until his resignation on November 11, 1957, he was a member of the Council of Elders, the Agricultural Policy Committee and the Intermediate Committee.

In the federal elections in 1957 , 1961 , 1965 and 1969 , he was elected to the Bundestag , to which he belonged until 1970, via the state list of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1963 to 1965 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group . He was u. a. Member of the Defense Committee .

On March 11, 1970 he became the German Bundestag's defense commissioner . He held this office until March 19, 1975.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Tradition and progress. Handicaps of the Bundeswehr - Army in a democracy . In: Wolfram von Raven (ed.): Army against the war. Value and Effect of the Bundeswehr . Seewald, Stuttgart-Degerloch 1966, pp. 118-138.

literature

  • Rudolf J. Schlaffer : The Armed Forces Commissioner 1951 to 1985. Out of concern for the soldiers (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 5). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58025-9 , p. 349.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 793-794.
  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 638–639.
  • Fritz-Rudolf Schultz , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/1975 of September 29, 1975. Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 44/2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • A tricky inheritance . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1970

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personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Fritz-Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultz, Fritz Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag for the armed forces
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2002
Place of death Gau-Bischofsheim