Fritz Oellers

Fritz Oellers

Fritz Oellers (born July 25, 1903 in Düsseldorf , † December 4, 1977 in Straßlach , Upper Bavaria ) was a German diplomat and politician of the FDP .

Life

After graduating from high school, Oellers studied law and then settled in what is now Saxony-Anhalt as a lawyer specializing in insurance law . From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the board of directors in the insurance division "German Lawyers and Notaries Insurance" (DANV) of Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherung without interruption . At the same time, the insurance company forced its Jewish supervisory board members, including Erich Warburg from the well-known Hamburg banking family and the politician Erich Koch-Weser , to resign.

In 1946, Oellers fled from reprisals by the Soviet occupying power to Schleswig-Holstein , where he again worked as a lawyer. He was German ambassador to Brazil from 1951 to 1956 and then to Turkey until 1959 . In 1959 he was given temporary retirement.

Oellers had been a member of the Corps Teutonia Halle since 1922 , which was merged into the Corps Saxonia Frankfurt am Main in 1949 .

See also : Corps Saxonia Halle

Political party

Oellers co-founded the LDPD in Halle in 1945 . After fleeing to the West, he became a member of the FDP , where he formed the extreme right wing of the party with August-Martin Euler in Hesse, Friedrich Middelhauve in North Rhine-Westphalia and Artur Stegner in Lower Saxony. From April 29, 1947, when he replaced the left-wing liberal Peter Christel Asmussen , until 1951 he was state chairman of the FDP in Schleswig-Holstein . On December 12, 1948 he was elected to the first federal executive committee of the FDP in Heppenheim , but failed in the election of the executive committee at the first regular federal party conference in June 1949 in Bremen . Politically, he spoke out in favor of rearming early on - including at the Bremen party congress in 1949 - at a time when a German contribution to the military was not yet eligible for a majority in the FDP. A year later, at the federal party conference on 29./30. April 1950 , he then succeeded in returning to the inner federal executive committee, which he belonged to until 1951 and then again from 1970 to 1972. From 1969 to 1977 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

MP

Oellers was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone in 1948/49 . He was a member of the German Bundestag in its first legislative period from 1949 to June 5, 1951. On January 10, 1951, he was elected as a member of the parliamentary committee. Oellers resigned his mandate to become Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brazil . With Euler, Middelhauve and Stegner, he spoke out in favor of a parliamentary group with the German Party in the Bundestag, but could not prevail.

Honors

• 1955: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1972: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 614 f.

See also

• Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Jews cannot be members of the fund" , State Center for Political Education Hamburg.
2. ↑ Az. B 136/6168, Bundesarchiv  ( 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.  
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten , 1960, 37 , 347; 29 , 135.
4. ↑ Cf. Marco Kirchhof: The importance of liberalism in the re-establishment of the German party system from 1945 to 1953 (Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic) (diploma thesis, University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences), Potsdam 2006, p. 73 f.