Fritz Becker (politician)

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Fritz Becker (born December 20, 1910 in Thale , † June 22, 1983 in Lüneburg ) was a German politician ( CDU , DP ).

Life and work

Fritz Becker was a trained bank clerk. Until the banning of the paper in 1936 he was co-editor of the weekly Volk, Freiheit, Vaterland in Hamburg. After voluntarily completing the Reich Labor Service , he took part in the Second World War as a Wehrmacht soldier from 1939 to 1945 . In 1946 he entered the service of the Hamburg Economic Authority , where he worked for the State Commissariat for Denazification until 1948 . From 1950 he was employed by the Hamburg State Labor Office. He died in Lüneburg in 1983 as a victim of a robbery and murder.

politics

Becker was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1946 to 1953 . First elected for the CDU in the Harvestehude constituency, he left it on May 15, 1947 and joined the German party in spring 1949. He caused a sensation beyond the borders of Hamburg with a speech in the citizenship on May 18, 1949, in which he sharply criticized the Basic Law and in particular the decision in favor of black, red and gold as the federal colors, although the two DP representatives in the Parliamentary Council for these very colors.

From 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the German Bundestag as a member of the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel constituency . From 1953 to September 1955 he held the office of deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for questions of public welfare.

literature

Web links

  • Becker (Hamburg), Fritz . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 74–75 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. “Hamburgs Macht am Rhein” , in Hamburger Abendblatt of November 16, 1990, accessed on May 25, 2020.