Fritz Fuchs (lawyer)

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Fritz Fuchs (* 24. December 1881 in Kreuznach , † 6. February 1972 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and politician of the CDU .

Life and accomplishments

The evangelical baptized, native of Bad Kreuznacher Fritz Fuchs turned after graduating from high school to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which he with the Doctorate to Dr. jur. completed.

Following his studies and doctorate, Fritz Fuchs worked as a lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court for more than 50 years . He began his professional career in the law firm of Bernhard Falk , a lawyer who had practiced the legal profession on his own since 1893. Since then, both have operated under the name "Falk & Fuchs". The law firm was expanded into a three-party partnership in 1926 when attorney Wilhelm Koll joined.

Fritz Fuchs, who was appointed honorary senator of the University of Cologne , was married to Auguste, born Buchholz. There were four children from this connection. Fritz Fuchs died in February 1972 at the age of 90 in Cologne.

Political commitment

After the Second World War, Fritz Fuchs was one of the founding members of the Cologne CDU. In the years 1947 to 1956 he held the offices of deputy mayor of the city of Cologne and that of chairman of the cultural committee on an honorary basis . In addition, Fritz Fuchs has been co-editor of the Kölnische Rundschau since 1946 .

Awards and honors

In September 1944, Fuchs and his wife Auguste saved Henriette Jordan, a German woman of Jewish origin who had not been persecuted up to this point due to her mixed marriage with an Aryan German, from deportation by the National Socialists . In recognition of this merit, the couple was posthumously awarded the Righteous Among the Nations award on March 23, 2010 at the Yad Vashem Israeli Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem . In honor of the Fuchs couple, a street in Bergisch Gladbach was named after them and is now called "Auguste-und-Fritz-Fuchs-Platz".

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Arani Verlags-GmBH., Berlin, 1967, p. 504.
  • Günter letter : Adenauer, “We really created something”. The minutes of the CDU federal executive committee, 1953-1957. Droste, Düsseldorf, 1990, ISBN 978-3770007998 , p. 407.
  • Winfried Herbers: The Loss of Hegemony .: The Cologne CDU 1945/46 - 1964, Droste, Düsseldorf, 2003, ISBN 978-3770018901 , p. 170.
  • Everhard Kleinertz : bequests and collections, association and club, family and company archives in the Cologne City Archive , 1963-2002: an overview, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, Cologne, 2003, ISBN 978-3928907132 , pp. 72, 73.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WERNER lawyers IT specialists: Founding years until 1945 . In: WERNER lawyers computer scientists . ( werner-ri.de [accessed on December 2, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Note from the law firm WERNER RI (WERNER Rechtsanwälte Informatiker, website: https://www.werner-ri.de ) on the deeds of the former partner RA Dr. Fritz Fuchs and his wife Auguste; the note contains a link to the article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA) of November 29, 2013 with further information
  3. ^ Posthumous honor for the former mayor of Cologne and his wife on stadt-koeln.de; Retrieved April 21, 2014
  4. ^ Report on the inauguration of the "Auguste-und-Fritz-Fuchs-Platz"
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician of the CDU
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1972
Place of death Cologne