Hans Hirzel

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Hans Hirzel (born October 30, 1924 in Untersteinbach ; † June 3, 2006 in Wiesbaden ) was a member of the Ulm high school graduate group in the environment of the White Rose resistance group , a politician ( CDU , Die Republikaner ) and a journalist . From 1976 to 1993 he was a CDU member. In 1993 he switched to the Republicans and became their deputy federal chairman and ran for this party in the election of the German Federal President in 1994 .

Life

Hirzel met Hans Scholl in 1942 and, together with Franz J. Müller and his sister Susanne Hirzel , sent and distributed White Rose leaflets. This highly secret action was prepared in the Martin Luther Church in Ulm behind the organ prospect. The father Ernst Hirzel was the parish priest at this church at that time.

In 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo , but was initially released and informed the Scholl family of the Gestapo's findings about Hans and Sophie Scholl . A short time later, Hans Hirzel was arrested again and sentenced to five years in prison together with Franz J. Müller, but was released again at the end of the Nazi dictatorship.

Hirzel later worked as an assistant at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as an editor for the Frankfurter Hefte .

Hirzel became a CDU member in 1976. In 1993 he left the CDU and joined the Republicans. He was deputy federal chairman of the Republicans and ran for the election of the German Federal President in 1994 for this party, which had eight seats in the Federal Assembly. He ran in all three ballots and received the fewest votes, namely 12 (1st ballot) and 11 (2nd and 3rd ballot). Like all the other candidates (with one exception), Hirzel was able to garner more votes than the distribution of seats allowed. There were three or four votes for the Republican. In 1997 he became a city councilor in Wiesbaden. In an article for the journal Nation und Europa , he described the Ruhstorf decision to delimit extremist and anti-constitutional organizations as harmful to the party. In 2001 he resigned from the party and the parliamentary group and remained an independent city councilor until mid-February 2006. During this time he supported the CDU-FDP coalition and helped it to achieve a one-vote majority in the city parliament.

He wrote for the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . He joined the protest against their exclusion from the Leipzig Book Fair in 2006.

Hirzel died in Wiesbaden in June 2006 after a long and serious illness. His grave is in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim on the local forest cemetery . He is portrayed in the White Rose Memorial in Ulm .

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  1. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior : Constitutional Protection Report 2000, p. 50
  2. ↑ "That was the purest suicide" , article from May 9, 2001 by Heidrun Holzbach on Spiegel Online
  3. ↑ Fatal error . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2003 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b Republican Press Service: Farewell to Hans Hirzel ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), August 13, 2006
  5. ↑ Cf. Werner Billing: The struggle for the occupation of the highest state office: Selection and election of the Federal President 1994 . In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions, 26 (1995) 4, pp. 595–620, here: p. 617.
  6. ^ Appeal for freedom of the press against the politically motivated unloading of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit, expressed by the Leipzig Book Fair
personal data
SURNAME Hirzel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU, REP), member of the White Rose
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Untersteinbach
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2006
Place of death Wiesbaden