Fritz Geyer (administrative lawyer)

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Friedrich ("Fritz") Geyer (born December 30, 1888 in Großenhain , † June 24, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German government official and lawyer . He was head of the government chancellery and head of the office of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the GDR .

Life

The son of the cigar maker and politician Friedrich Geyer attended elementary school and high school . From 1908 to 1912 he studied law at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there to the Dr. iur. He then worked in the civil service. In 1915 he was drafted into the military and released as a lieutenant at the end of the war.

In 1919 he joined the USPD , switched to the VKPD in 1920 and to the SPD in 1922 . From 1920 to 1933 he was Ministerialrat in the Saxon Ministry of Justice. Because of his political stance, Geyer was removed from civil service after the National Socialists " seized power " in 1933. He then worked as a casual worker until 1945.

In 1945 he rejoined the SPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED . After 1945 Geyer initially worked as legal advisor and state secretary of the state administration of Saxony under Prime Minister Rudolf Friedrichs , with whom he was well known and friends since his time as ministerial advisor . Geyer's appointment met with fierce criticism from Walter Ulbricht . According to Ulbricht, Geyer has been engaging in "anti-communist and anti-Soviet agitation" since he left the KPD and subsequently joined the SPD. From October 14, 1949 to 1956, he was state secretary head of the government chancellery and head of the office of the presidium of the GDR Council of Ministers under Otto Grotewohl .

He then taught as a professor for international law at the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR). From 1962 he was Vice-Rector for the Training of Senior Officials and temporarily Director of the Institute for International Law and International Relations at the DASR.

In 1917 Fritz Geyer married the Quaker Margarete Roedding (1885–1952). The couple had two sons: Hans Martin (1920–2008) and Leonhard Ulrich (1921–1944). Fritz Geyer's urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 107.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 221.
  • Rainer Behring, Mike Schmeitzner (Hrsg.): Dictatorship implementation in Saxony. Studies on the genesis of communist rule 1945–1952 (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism , Vol. 22). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 175.
  • Dierk Hoffmann: Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964). A political biography . Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59032-6 (publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History), p. 397.
  • Andreas Herbst :  Geyer, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Andreas Thüsing (Ed.): The Presidium of the State Administration of Saxony. The minutes of the meetings from July 9, 1945 to December 10, 1946 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, passim.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Thüsing (Ed.): The Presidium of the State Administration of Saxony. The minutes of the meetings from July 9, 1945 to December 10, 1946 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 33
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of 15 October 1949th
  3. ^ Claus Bernet:  Geyer, Margarete. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 675-678.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German government official, lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1966
Place of death Berlin