Gotthard Franke

Gotthard Franke (born August 14, 1912 in Weidenau , Austrian Silesia , † January 8, 1975 in Heiligenroth ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , GDP , FDP ).

Life

Franke originally came from the Sudetenland and attended the elementary and civil school there . He completed an apprenticeship in the stone construction industry from 1926 to 1929, worked from 1930 to 1938 as a commercial clerk at industrial companies and from 1938 to 1940 as an administrative clerk. In 1940 he accepted a position as a civil servant at the District Office in Freiwaldau . Franke had been a member of the SdP since 1935 . On November 1, 1938, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 6,865,974).

After the Second World War , Franke came to Hessen as a displaced person , became a member of the right-wing Witikobund and worked as a sales representative in Mainzlar . He was one of the co-founders of GB / BHE and came to GDP on May 10, 1961 through the merger of the same with the DP . From 1954 to 1963 he was chairman of the Hessian state in both parties. From 1958 to 1961 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the GB / BHE. On May 26, 1964, he joined the FDP.

Franke was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1950 to 1970 . From February 13, 1968 to January 22, 1969 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and then chairman of the committee for economics and transport until he left the parliament. The Landtag elected him a member of the second Federal Assembly , which in 1954 re-elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President. From January 19, 1955 to January 31, 1963 he was the Hessian Minister of State for Economics and Transport (until January 29, 1959 also as Minister of State for Labor ). From January 19, 1955 to January 29, 1959, he also took on the role of Deputy Prime Minister.

Franke had been consul of the Republic of Dahomey since 1964 and became its consul general in 1969. Furthermore, he was President of the Association of Road Users from 1969.

See also

• Kabinett Zinn II - Kabinett Zinn III

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 254 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 132-133.
• Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 5, 12, 18 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
• Gotthard Franke , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/1977 of April 25, 1977, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on June 22, 2017 ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Franke, Gotthard. Hessian biography. (As of January 8, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Gotthard Franke on a GB / BHE election poster for the 1961 federal election : “State party conference of the all-German bloc / BHE in Fulda, May 22, 1960”. Contemporary history in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
2. ^ Franke, Gotthard . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 318–319 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).