Fritz Burgbacher

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Fritz Burgbacher (1972)

Fritz Burgbacher (actually Karl Friedrich Burgbacher ) (born September 1, 1900 in Mainz , † July 29, 1978 in Cologne ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and energy economist .

Life and work

Grave cross on Melaten cemetery

Burgbacher, who was of the Roman Catholic faith, studied after high school in 1918 at the Oberrealschule elementary and political sciences at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1921 he obtained an administrative diploma and was awarded a doctorate in political science . He worked as managing director of the Mainz guild association and for employers' associations in Rhine-Hesse . In 1923 he became in-house counsel for the Mainz branch of Dresdner Bank AG , until he became self-employed as an economic and tax consultant in 1925 . In 1929, Burgbacher became a member of the Rhenag Executive Board. He was a board member of various professional associations and a member of the supervisory board of various companies. At the end of the 1920s he received a lectureship in energy economics at the University of Cologne , initiated the establishment of the Energy Economics Institute (EWI) in 1943 and was an honorary professor there from 1955 until his death.

Burgbacher was a co-founder of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs and was also a member of its board. He was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Hasso-Nassovia Frankfurt am Main in the CV .

Fritz Burgbacher died on July 29, 1978 and was buried in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (lit. R).

Political party

Before 1933, Burgbacher belonged to the center . In 1948 he joined the CDU. There he was state treasurer of the Rhineland regional association from 1952 to 1967 and federal treasurer from 1960 to 1967.

MP

Burgbacher was from 1929 (after the resignation of Hans Lautenbacher ) to 1931 a member of the state parliament in the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse . From 1933 to 1934 he worked as a city councilor for Cologne. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1976, where he initially represented the Geilenkirchen -Erkelenz-Jülich constituency , and later the Heinsberg constituency . In 1965 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag special committee for drafting the political party law . He drafted the law for the introduction of capital- forming benefits (known as: 312- later 624-Mark law). In 1972 he was one of the members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group who, contrary to the majority of the parliamentary group, rejected the treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland on the basis of normalizing their mutual relations . In the seventh electoral term, Burgbacher was the second oldest member of the Bundestag after Ludwig Erhard .

From February 27, 1958 to January 19, 1977, Burgbacher was also a member of the European Parliament , of which he was vice-president from March 1973 to November 1975, after having been chairman of the energy committee there from 1958 to 1967. From 1967 to 1969 he was a member of the North Atlantic Assembly , where he headed the Economic Committee.

Fritz Burgbacher represented the interests of the coal industry at parliamentary level, and in particular in the Bundestag he was considered the architect and leader of the coal lobby.

Fonts

  • Good money is better than more money. 1957.
  • Thoughts on our time. (3 volumes), Verlag Deutsche Glocke, 1957 (volume 1), 1961 (volume 2), 1965 (volume 3).
  • The entrepreneur in society. 1959.
  • Problems of property formation. 1960.
  • The energy industry in the common market. Lutzeyer, 1963.
  • Commitment to Europe. Herder, 1963.
  • The energy situation in the Federal Republic and the future prospects of coal. West German Publishing House, 1964.
  • with Hans Ludwig Richter , Income Distribution and Wealth Creation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Leske, 1964.
  • with Theodor Wessels , problems of order and development tendencies in the German energy industry. Vulkan-Verlag, 1967.
  • Productive capital for everyone. Kohlhammer, 1971.

literature

  • Günter letter : Fritz Burgbacher (1900–1978). A picture of life . Sankt Augustin 2000
  • Günter letter: from employee to co-owner. The Burgbacher Plan of 1969 , Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen, January 1999, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 269–288
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 94.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 103.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 79.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 114–115.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Burgbacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lennart Henny: The establishment of the Energy Economics Institute at the University of Cologne. (PDF; 1.3 MB) Diploma thesis in the subject of special economics. (No longer available online.) University of Cologne , 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wigeschbib.uni-koeln.de  
  2. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , pp. 167f.
  3. ^ Christoph Nonn : The Ruhr mining crisis. De-industrialization and politics 1958–1969 (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 149). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 186 and p. 197, ISBN 3-525-35164-X .
personal data
SURNAME Burgbacher, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgbacher, Karl Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1978
Place of death Cologne