Fritz Flint

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Fritz Flint (born March 11, 1917 in Doberan ; † June 7, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was chairman of the CDU district associations Cottbus and Berlin, a member of the People's Chamber and deputy to the state secretary for church issues in the GDR .

Life

The son of a master locksmith completed a commercial apprenticeship in Rostock from 1933 to 1936 after attending primary school and the Friderico-Francisceum grammar school in Bad Doberan . He worked first as a salesman, then as a buyer in a machine tool wholesaler in Braunschweig . In 1938 he was drafted into the armed forces and had to do military service from 1939. In 1945 he was briefly taken prisoner by the British .

In 1945/46 he worked as a laborer, from 1946 to 1949 as an accountant in a private weaving mill in Bad Doberan. In 1945 he became a member of the FDGB and in January 1946 the CDU. From 1946 to 1951 he was a city councilor in Bad Doberan and a member of the Rostock-Land district assembly. In 1949 he became a member of DSF . From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a city councilor and deputy mayor in Bad Doberan. He was then mayor of Grabow from 1951 to 1953 . From 1953 to 1957 he was Deputy Mayor and City Councilor of Schwerin. After a short course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam in 1953, he took up distance learning, which he completed in 1956 with a degree in political science. In 1954 he became a member of the Kulturbund .

At the 8th party congress of the CDU in September 1956 he was elected to the main board of the CDU. On July 24, 1957, he was introduced by Gerald Götting as chairman of the CDU district association Cottbus. The office had been exercised by the deputy district chairman Kurt Stolle months after the death of Georg-Willi Hein . After only six months he became chairman of the CDU district association in Berlin by resolution of the presidium of the CDU main board on February 14, 1958. He held this office until May 1960. However, he remained a member of the CDU district committee in Berlin.

From October 1958 (IX. Party Congress) to October 1964 (XI. Party Congress) he was a member of the Presidium of the main board of the CDU. From 1958 to 1963 he was a member of the city council of Berlin and as a Berlin representative and member of the CDU parliamentary group, a member of the People's Chamber. From May 1960 to 1977 he held the office of Deputy State Secretary for Church Affairs (successor to Max Hartwig). In July 1977 he took early retirement for health reasons.

In 1979 he became chairman of the newly formed veterans commission of the CDU district association in Berlin and deputy chairman of the veterans commission of the CDU main board. On March 17, 1987 he was appointed honorary member of the CDU main board and member of the honorary council of the CDU main board.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , July 25, 1957, p. 2.
  2. ^ Neue Zeit , February 15, 1958, p. 1.
  3. ^ Neue Zeit , July 5, 1977, p. 1.
  4. ^ Neue Zeit , March 21, 1980, p. 8.
  5. ^ Neue Zeit , March 18, 1987, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Flint, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flint, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Doberan
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1999
Place of death Berlin