Hans Frenzel (politician)

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Hans Frenzel (born September 7, 1895 in Herzogenburg ; † August 25, 1966 in Linz ) was a pharmacist and chemist as well as a politician of the SPÖ . He was President of the Austrian Court of Auditors .

Life

Frenzel graduated from the technical college, chemistry department, in Bodenbach an der Elbe. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1937 and successfully completed a pharmacy degree in 1957. From 1919 to 1926 he was an official in the food control department of the Linz Magistrate, then director of the Linz Market Office. In 1938 he was dismissed as a social democrat for political reasons and imprisoned for a while. After a job with technical emergency aid in the Ukraine, he was allowed to take over the management of the market office again as a contract employee in January 1942. In this role he worked until 1945. In August 1942 he founded the resistance group GB (GB = counter movement).

From May to October 1945 he was a member of the "civil servants' government" set up by the Americans as the Upper Austrian provincial government with the "nutrition" department. Frenzel was then from December 1945 to 1947 in the Federal Government Figl I Federal Minister for People's Nutrition , 1947 to 1953 Vice President and 1953 to 1964 finally President of the Austrian Court of Audit .

In 1947 he founded the Austrian Working Group for Public Health , became its General Secretary and later President. From 1948 onwards, in addition to his political offices, he was also President of the Austrian Esperanto Movement .

From 1946 he was a member of the Codex Commission, from 1951 to 1964 its chairman. As chairman of the Codex Commission in the Ministry of Social Affairs responsible for the new version of the Austrian Food Code (Codex Alimentarius Austriacus), he had great influence on the new version of the Austrian Food Code that was to be processed .

From 1958 to 1962 he held the position of President of the "European Council of the Codex Alimentarius Europaeus ". In 1965 he was elected chairman (coordinator) of the coordinating committee for Europe of the FAO / WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission.

Frenzel was the initiator for founding the Codex Alimentarius Europaeus. From 1953 he pursued the idea of ​​a European food book, which was also strongly supported by the food industry. In 1958 the European Council of the Codex Alimentarius Europaeus was founded, and Frenzel was elected its first president. In 1963 the European Council of the Codex Alimentarius Europaeus was incorporated into the FAO / WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission as the “Regional Coordination Group for Europe (CCEURO)”. Frenzel was elected chairman of the coordinating committee for Europe in 1965, but could no longer exercise this function for health reasons.

Awards

literature

  • F. Vojir, E. Schübl: Part A. Codex Alimentarius Austriacus, Codex Alimentarius Europaeus, Worldwide Codex, Historical Development . In: 120 Years Codex Alimentarius Austriacus (Austrian Food Book), 1891–2011 , Festschrift. Federal Ministry of Health, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Vienna / Graz 2011, pp. 29–166.
  • History of the Codex Alimentarius Europaeus . Austrian Working Group for Public Health, Vienna 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Schuster: Political Restoration and Denazification Policy in Upper Austria. In: Walter Schuster, Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Denazification in regional comparison: the attempt to take stock (= historical yearbook of the city of Linz 2002 ). Archive of the City of Linz , Linz 2004, ISBN 3-900388-55-5 , p. 162, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  2. ^ S. Ganglmair: Resistance and persecution in Linz during the Nazi era . In: F. Mayrhofer, W. Schuster (Ed.): National Socialism in Linz . Linz 2001, Volume 2, pp. 1427-1431
  3. ↑ Experience Linz, convey contemporary history . Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture Organization GmbH, with the support of Linz AG Linien, VOEST Alpine station
  4. ↑ F. Vojir, E. Schübl, "Dr. Hans Frenzel - A Successful Visionary (Codex Alimentarius Europaeus, Worldwide Codex Alimentarius)", Nutrition / Nutrition, Vol. 36 / No. 1, 2012, pp. 29–33 (PDF; 90 kB)
  5. ↑ Franz Vojíř, Erwin Schübl, Ibrahim Elmadfa: The Origins of a Global Standard for Food Quality and Safety: Codex Alimentarius Austriacus and FAO / WHO Codex Alimentarius . Int. J. Vitam. Nutr. Res. , 82 (3), 2012, pp. 223-227, PMID 23258404
  6. ↑ CCEURO ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / cceuro.pl
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Frenzel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian President of the Court of Auditors and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1966
Place of death Linz