Hans Furler

Hans Furler on an undated CDU election poster.

Hans Furler (* 5. June 1904 in Lahr , † 29. June 1975 in Achern ) was a German politician of the CDU .

Life and work

After graduating from high school at the Humanist Gymnasium in Lahr , Hans Furler, who was a Roman Catholic , studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . During his studies in 1922 he became a member of the Teutonia Freiburg fraternity . In 1925 he passed the first state examination in law, and in December 1928 the assessor examination. Just six months ago, he was at Gerhard Anschütz in Heidelberg with the dissertation The police emergency law and the obligation to compensate the state for Dr. iur. PhD . He initially worked as a lawyer in Pforzheim , but took up a lectureship in patent law as early as 1930 . In 1932 he completed his habilitation at the TH Karlsruhe with the thesis possession, traffic validity, forfeiture in competition law , which in 1940 appointed him extraordinary professor for commercial legal protection and copyright . From 1941 to 1944 he was conscripted for the German civil administration in occupied Alsace .

Hans Furler joined the SA in 1934 and was a member of the NSDAP from 1938 . From 1945 to the conclusion of his denazification proceedings in 1948, he worked as a legal advisor in his in-laws' paper mill, August Koehler AG in Oberkirch (Baden) . In 1948 he opened a new law firm in Freiburg. From 1950 he taught at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . From 1958 to 1966 he was honorary president of the German Council of the European Movement .

Political party

Furler joined the CDU in 1952. In the same year he became chairman of the economic policy advisory board of the Baden state association.

MP

Furler was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1972. In 1953 he moved into parliament via the CDU Baden-Württemberg's state list and from 1957 he represented the constituency of Offenburg . From 1953 to 1957 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for industrial property rights and copyright. From May 10, 1957 until the end of the second legislative period , he was chairman of the special committee “Common Market / Euratom”. From January 29, 1959 to May 25, 1960 he was chairman of the Bundestag committee for foreign affairs .

He was also a member of the Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) from July 1, 1955 to March 19, 1958, and from 1956 as its President. From 1958 to 1973 he was a member of the European Parliament , from 1960 to 1962 as its President, until 1973 as Vice-President.

Awards

Furler was awarded the Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1958 . On July 3, 1962, his place of residence in Oberkirch made him an honorary citizen .

On May 22nd, 1976, the new high school building in his hometown Oberkirch was inaugurated, which has since borne his name: Hans-Furler-Gymnasium .

Publications

• Police emergency law and the state's obligation to pay compensation. In: Administrative Archives. Vol. 33, 1928, ISSN  0042-4501 , pp. 340-427 (Heidelberg, University, legal dissertation of October 19, 1928).
• Parliaments over the nations. Development, state and prospects in Europe. In: The Political Opinion. Vol. 2, No. 11, 1957, ISSN  0032-3446 , pp. 17-28.
• Speeches and essays 1953–1957. Self-published, Oberkirch 1958.
• In the new Europe. Experiences and experiences in the European Parliament. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1963.

literature

• Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , revised and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 96f.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 349-351.
• Horst Ferdinand, Adolf Kohler: For Europe. Hans Furler's life path. Europa-Union-Verlag, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7773-0002-9 .
• Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch (Hrsg.): Europe - a vision becomes reality. Hans Furler (1904-1975). Grimmelshausen-Buchhandlung, Oberkirch 2004, ISBN 3-926973-15-3 .
• Jürgen Mittag : From a circle of dignitaries to a European network. Six decades of the European Movement in Germany. In: Christoph Linden, Michael Hacker (Red.): 60 Years of the European Movement Germany. 1949-2009. Network European Movement, Berlin 2009, pp. 12–28, online ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
• Claudia Philipp: Hans Furler - A European from the very beginning. In: LpB, Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): The eastward expansion of the EU (= The citizen in the state. Vol. 54, no . 1, ISSN  0007-3121 ). Weinmann, Filderstadt 2004, pp. 71-74, online .

Web links

Commons : Hans Furler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Furler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Furler - Biographical contributions on the occasion of the 100th birthday in 2004 - Homepage of the Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch (Hrsg.): Europe - a vision becomes reality. Hans Furler (1904-1975). 2004, pp. 22-28.
2. ↑ cf. Midday: From dignitaries to European network. In: Linden, Hacker (Red.): 60 Years of the European Movement in Germany. 1949-2009. 2009, pp. 12–28, here p. 20.