Fritz Hellwig

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Fritz Hellwig's candidate poster for the 1953 federal election

Fritz Hellwig (born August 3, 1912 in Saarbrücken ; † July 22, 2017 in Bonn ) was a German politician .

Life

Hellwig came from the southern part of the Rhine Province , which later belonged to the Saarland . His father Friedrich Hellwig was a school councilor.

Hellwig attended a boys' school from 1918 and from 1921 the Saarbrücker Reform Realgymnasium (from 1976 grammar school at the castle ), where he passed the Abitur “with distinction” at Easter 1930. In the summer semester of 1930 he began to study history, philosophy, geography, English and economics at the Philipps University in Marburg . Since 1930 he was a member of the Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken . He moved to the University of Vienna and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In December 1933 he was in Berlin summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD. From 1931 he completed military training at the Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement and in April 1933 began training as a military sports assistant teacher and group leader at the field sports school at the Troop Training Area in Döberitz , from which he was given leave to take an exam. During his time in Berlin, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in April 1933 (membership number 2.680.654). At the end of 1933 he worked for a short time in the storm department in Berlin until he moved to Saarbrücken . In the Saar area , as a member of the NSDAP, he was also a member of the German Front and agitator for the Saar vote in 1935.

At the end of 1933 Hellwig joined the management of the Saarbrücken Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a research assistant , for which he worked in the Saar Economic Archives until 1939, alongside his political activities. In addition, he had been a lecturer at the Saarbrücken University of Teacher Training since 1937 . At the same time, he took on tasks as a consultant on the cultural advisory board for the regional management of the German Labor Front. In 1934 he also directed the Saar exhibition in Cologne. In 1936, he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with a biography on the hundredth birthday of the Prussian industrialist Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg , which he claims under the "obligation imposed on him by the demand for historical loyalty and the social unity of the people as the sole location" , created. Bertha Countess Sierstorpff, a daughter of Stumm-Halberg, wrote the preface for Hellwig's extensive biography. In 1939/40 Hellwig was managing director of the iron industry organization in Düsseldorf and then until 1943 of the iron and steel industry, district group south-west, to which the mining industrial areas of France occupied by the German Reich in 1940 belonged. At the end of 1942 he was appointed war administrator in the economic inspection center of the Eastern Front . The conscription to the Wehrmacht in February 1943 was followed by the capture at the end of 1943.

After being released from captivity in 1947, Hellwig initially worked as a consultant economist in Düsseldorf and Duisburg ; because in the (French-occupied) Saarland from 1947 to 1956 he was persona non grata . From 1951 to 1959 he was managing director of the German Industrial Institute in Cologne , which later became the Institute of German Economy . He became a member of the Germania fraternity, founded on November 23, 1951 in Saarbrücken, and was chairman of the German Saar Federation . His analyzes were a corrective to the Saar policy by Konrad Adenauer , who considered the Saar question to be "secondary", spoke of a "Europeanization of the Saar" and accepted the loss of the Saar area.

Hellwig was a member of the German Society for Foreign Policy and lived near Bonn. As the oldest former member of the Bundestag, he died in July 2017 a few days before his 105th birthday. One of Hellwig's sons is the economist Martin Hellwig .

politics

Hellwig was a member of the NSDAP and the SA. Nothing is known about its denazification . In 1947 he joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and in the same year became a member of the Economic Policy Committee for the Rhineland . Later he was also elected to the Federal Committee for Economic Policy and the CDU Federal Executive . Hellwig was one of the co-authors of the Düsseldorf Guidelines of the CDU from 1949. He sat in the German Bundestag from 1953 to November 30, 1959 . He was directly elected in 1953 in the constituency of Remscheid - Solingen and in 1957 in the constituency of Cologne II . From September 21, 1956 he was chairman of the Bundestag committee for economic policy . From 1953 to 1956 Hellwig was also deputy delegate for the Council of Europe . From February 25 to September 14, 1959 he was also a member of the European Parliament . He resigned from the Bundestag to become a member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community . When this was merged in 1967 with the commissions of the European Economic Community and Euratom, he became Vice-President of the newly formed Commission of the European Communities until 1970.

Collector

For a long time Hellwig collected maps, engravings, writings and books about Saar-Lor-Lux and the surrounding regions. He gradually donated parts of his collection to the Saarbrücken State Archives. In 2002 it received a portrait collection with around 320 engravings and prints from the period from 1550 to 1816. In 2008, he bequeathed 846 historical maps to the State Archives, which honored this donation with the cross-border traveling exhibition 500 years of Saar-Lor-Lux , the catalog with the Fritz finding aid Hellwig is dedicated. In 2010 the State Archives received 1175 engravings and prints of views of the town and historical events. In 1997 and 1998 the Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz acquired collector's items from Hellwig's possession. There are around 320 works, illustrated Rhine books and travel guides relating to the entire course of the Rhine. The Hellwig map collection, which the library acquired in 2008, comprises more than 300 maps of the course of the Rhine. Both of them focus on the Middle Rhine.

Foundation, endowment

On the occasion of his 100th birthday on August 3, 2012, Hellwig donated a prize for scientific research on the functioning and effect of bureaucracies in the state, economy and society, the bureaucracy science prize . The prize has been awarded every two years since 2013 and is managed by the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft in Cologne.

The first award ceremony with an endowment of 5000 euros each took place on May 11, 2015; Political scientist Thomas König was one of the three winners . At the second award ceremony on May 29, 2017, two publications were honored that deal with the function and effect of bureaucracy on the state, economy and society. Political scientist Christoph Knill was one of the winners.

Fonts

  • Carl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg . Habilitation University of Heidelberg 1936.
  • Lorraine steel instead of Ruhr steel? Düsseldorf 1947.
  • The Saar's economic ties. Düsseldorf 1947.
  • Konrad Adenauer. For the 125th birthday. In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen , Heft 8, 2001, pages 1–10.
  • European integration from historical experience. A contemporary witness interview with Michael Gehler, Bonn 2004 ISSN  1435-3288 ISBN 3-936183-29-5 ( PDF; 0.6 MB ).

See also

literature

  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academies (1926-1933) and universities for teacher training (1933-1941). Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, 828 pages, ISBN 3-892-71588-2 .
  • 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. 325–326.
  • Henning Tegtmeyer : Conversation with a contemporary witness about August Dresbach , Federal Newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 99 [New Series], Göttingen, October 2009, No. 2, pp. 30–32; Interview with contemporary witnesses Fritz Hellwig (link to the article)
  • Passionate market economist and convinced European - Fritz Hellwig on his 100th birthday. Published by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research, ISBN 978-3-602-14898-1 .
  • Klaus Malettke , Klaus Oldenhage (eds.): Fritz Hellwig. Saarlanders, Germans, Europeans. A commemorative publication for the 100th birthday. Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Vol. 20, Heidelberg 2012.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Beise : A European , obituary on sueddeutsche.de, July 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Malettke, Klaus Oldenhage (2012)
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The Struggle for the Saar 1860–1870 - Contributions to Napoleon III's Rhine policy.
  4. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin: Former BDC, RK files on Fritz Hellwig (* August 3, 1912) (currently available as microfilm as RK I 231 "Heller, Franz bis Hengst, Erich", images 915 to 950), BArch R 9361 V / 21803
  5. ↑ Hellwig was possibly also a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). The personal form he completed at the Reichsschrifttumskammer on April 25, 1935 is (deliberately) unclearly marked at this point.
  6. ^ Fritz Hellwig: Carl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg , 1936, p. 3
  7. ↑ Frank Grobe: With corporate help. Sixty years ago the Saarland became German again . Studentenkurier I / 17, pp. 4–5
  8. ↑ see Winand von Petersdorff: Der zornige Professor, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 5, 2013 (article about Martin Hellwig)
  9. ↑ Ludwig Linsmayer (Ed.): 500 years Saar-Lor-Lux. The Fritz Hellwig map collection in the Saarland State Archives. Historical contributions from the Saarbrücken State Archives. Sources and inventories 2. Published on behalf of the Association for the Promotion of the Saarbrücken State Archives. Echolot, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811672-4-5
  10. ^ Rheinische Landesbibliothek: Hellwig Collection , accessed on February 1, 2018.
  11. ^ Foundation Science Award Bureaucracy. German Foundation Center , accessed on July 27, 2017 : “The foundation was founded in 2012 by Professor Dr. Fritz Hellwig, Bonn, established. "
  12. ↑ 1st award ceremony. Bureaucracy Science Award. (No longer available online.) In: Veranstaltungen. Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft , May 11, 2015, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on July 27, 2017 : "The winner was a contribution about the work of the European Commission."
  13. ↑ Science Prize. (PDF) When bureaucracy takes over. (No longer available online.) In: Press release. Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft, May 29, 2017, archived from the original on July 10, 2017 ; Retrieved July 27, 2017 (Press Release No. 32). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iwkoeln.de
personal data
SURNAME Hellwig, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2017
Place of death Bonn