Hans Ehard

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Hans Ehard (1961)
Hans Ehard (standing in the center of the picture) during a meeting with his Prime Minister colleagues in Munich in June 1947

Johann Georg Ehard (born November 10, 1887 in Bamberg , † October 18, 1980 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and politician of the CSU . From 1946 to 1954 and from 1960 to 1962 he was Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria . From September 8, 1950 to September 7, 1951, he was the second and from November 1, 1961 to October 31, 1962 the 13th President of the Federal Council.

Life

Early years

After high school studied Ehard 1907-1912 Law in Munich and Würzburg , where he in 1912 with the graduation to the Dr. jur. completed. During his studies Ehard became a member of the Academic-Musical Association of Würzburg . During the First World War he was employed in the Bavarian military justice system, initially as a clerk and from 1917 as an assistant at the court of the 30th Reserve Division .
In September 1919 he became a member of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and joined the Bavarian Ministry of Justice in November 1919 . On November 1, 1923, he became the second public prosecutor at the Munich District Court .

During the high treason trial against Adolf Hitler in 1924 because of his attempted coup , he was investigating officer and prosecutor and "the right hand of the first public prosecutor Ludwig Stenglein ". On January 1, 1926, he became a district judge in the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, on September 1, 1928, senior government councilor and on May 1, 1931, ministerial advisor.

In 1933, after Hans Frank was appointed Bavarian Minister of Justice, Ehard resigned voluntarily from the ministry and on September 1, 1933 he became President of the Senate at the Munich Higher Regional Court (civil senate ), in 1937 also Chairman of the Munich Hereditary Court and 1941 Chairman of the German Medical Court in Munich, which the monitored political and racist allegiance of the doctors.

politics

After the end of the Nazi regime , he joined the CSU in 1945. In 1945 he was briefly Minister of Justice in the Schäffer cabinet , then State Secretary in the Hoegner I cabinet in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice and member of the Constituent Assembly .

On December 21, 1946, Ehard was elected Prime Minister of Bavaria . At the same time he became a member of the state council of the American occupation area . His government initially consisted of a coalition of the CSU, SPD and WAV . Since the SPD withdrew its ministers, Ehard created the first CSU sole government on September 21, 1947 , which could rely on a large majority in the state parliament. Ehard invited in 1948, after his own announcement, "in an effort to intensify Bavaria's influence on the shaping of the future constitution as much as possible" to the Herreninsel in the Chiemsee, where the Constitutional Convention then took place on Herrenchiemsee . As Prime Minister, Ehard tried to anchor stronger federal elements in the new constitution in the deliberations on the Basic Law , but was only able to partially prevail. Bavaria then also rejected the Basic Law, but has since acknowledged that it is also valid in Bavaria. Ehard had to wrest this commitment from his party by threatening to resign.

With the state elections in 1950 , the CSU lost its absolute majority after the Bavarian Party and BHE were approved . Ehard then formed a grand coalition with the SPD, which, although it had become the strongest voting force, had received fewer mandates than the CSU due to the right to vote. He remained Prime Minister until December 14, 1954, when a coalition of four against the CSU was formed after the next state election.

From 1949 to 1955 Ehard was party leader of the CSU . As party leader, Ehard succeeded in gradually calming down the wing struggles in the CSU, which were also based on the strong animosity of individual protagonists.

Memorial plaque in Bamberg am Jakobsberg

From 1954 Ehard was President of the Bavarian State Parliament. After Hanns Seidel resigned , he was again Bavarian Prime Minister from January 26, 1960 to December 11, 1962. In the Goppel I cabinet he took over the Justice Ministry again until December 5, 1966.

Ehard was also President of the Bavarian Red Cross from 1955 to 1969 and President of the German Forest Protection Association (SDW) from 1956 to 1963 . He has also been an honorary citizen of the cities of Munich and Bamberg since 1957 and of the community of Bubenreuth since 1974 .

Hans Ehard was buried in the old part of the forest cemetery in Munich (grave no. 086-W-12).

Political way

Honors

literature

  • Hilde Balke: The Presidents of the Bavarian State Parliament: from 1946 to 1994. Ed. Bavarian State Parliament, State Parliament Office, Munich [2001], ISBN 3-927924-23-7 .
  • Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: Hans Ehard. The federal policy of the Bavarian Prime Minister 1946-1954. ( Research and sources on contemporary history 18). Düsseldorf [1992], ISBN 3-7700-0976-2 .
  • The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers 1945-1962. Published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives. www.bayerischer-ministerrat.de
  • The Ehard I. Cabinet December 21, 1946 to September 20, 1947. Edited by Karl-Ulrich Gelberg. Munich [2000], ISBN 3-486-56413-7 .
  • The Ehard II cabinet. September 20, 1947 to December 18, 1950. Volume 1: September 24, 1947 to December 22, 1948. Edited by Karl-Ulrich Gelberg, Munich [2003], ISBN 3-486-56656-3 .
  • The Ehard II cabinet. September 20, 1947 to December 18, 1950. Volume 2: 5.1.1949-29.12.1949. Edited by Karl-Ulrich Gelberg, Munich [2005], ISBN 3-486-57566-X .
  • The Ehard II cabinet. September 20, 1947 to December 18, 1950. Volume 3: 5.1.1950-18.12.1950. Edited by Oliver Braun, Munich [2010], ISBN 978-3-486-58859-0 .
  • The Ehard III cabinet December 18, 1950 to December 14, 1954. I: 1951. Edited by Oliver Braun [2014], ISBN 978-3-486-70934-6 .
  • The Ehard III cabinet December 18, 1950 to December 14, 1954. 2: 1952. Edited by Oliver Braun [2016], ISBN 978-3-11-035003-6 .
  • The Ehard III cabinet. December 18, 1950 to December 14, 1954. 3: 1953. Edited by Oliver Braun [2019] ISBN 978-3-11-035004-3 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Ehard  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 37.
  2. ↑ Bavarian War Archives , War Log No. 199 (30th Reserve Division), Entry No. 100.
  3. ↑ cf. Wilhelm Hoegner : The difficult outsider.
  4. ↑ With windy paragraphs against medical ethics . Deutsches Ärzteblatt. February 28, 1997. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  5. ^ "Hans" Johann Georg Ehard . Klaus Nerger. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ Answer to the inquiry (PDF; 6.9 MB) Austrian Parliament. April 23, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ehard, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehard, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1980
Place of death Munich