Hans Reif

This article deals with the German FDP politician. For the Austrian SPÖ politician Hans Reif see Johann Reif .

Hans Reif (born January 19, 1899 in Leipzig , † November 11, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( FDP ). He was a member of the Parliamentary Council , the German Bundestag and the Berlin House of Representatives .

Life and work

His father Josef was the founder of the white-collar union . Reif studied economics , public law and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 1922 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pol., in 1923 became a research associate of the union federation of white-collar workers and one year later managing director of the Reich Committee for Trade, Industry and Commerce at the main board of the DDP . At the same time he was a research assistant for the liberal Hansabund . From 1933 to 1943 he worked as a business advisor and managing director of a specialist group in the wholesale organization. In 1935 he married Margarete Dührkop.

tomb

In 1945, Reif moved from Leipzig to West Berlin . From 1953 he held a chair for European politics at the German University of Politics , which later became the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . He is buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin.

politics

Reif had been a member of the DDP since 1922 and was chairman of the Leipzig group of the Democratic Students' Union . During the Weimar Republic he worked with various liberal politicians, including the journalist Gustav Stolper and the Cologne Reichstag delegate Hermann Fischer . The focus of his work was economic and social policy. In the Third Reich he published a secret correspondence on economic policy ( industrial service ) and was connected to the resistance group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Wilhelm Leuschner .

In 1945 he co-founded the LDPD in Leipzig . After moving to West Berlin, he became a member of the Berlin LDP in 1946, the West Berlin part of which joined the FDP. In 1958 and 1959 he was Berlin FDP chairman. From 1964, Reif was vice-president (patron since 1971) of the German group of the Liberal International , of which he was a co-founder in 1954.

Reif was a member of the International League for Human Rights , the German World Economic Society , the German-English Society , the Society of Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany and the Königstein Circle .

From 1959 until his death, Reif was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . In the archives of the liberalism of the Foundation in Gummersbach his estate and his library are kept.

MP

From 1946 to September 17, 1951, Reif was a member of the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . In 1948 and 1949 he was a member of the Berlin Parliamentary Council , where he was a member of the committee regulating responsibilities between the federal and state governments. He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1957 as a delegate from Berlin. From 1951 he was a member of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . From 1963 to 1971 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and its vice-president.

After the sudden death of Bundestag President D. Dr. Hermann Ehlers 1954, Reif created a hitherto unique situation in the Bundestag. On November 16, 1954, Reif beat the Berlin CDU member Ernst Lemmer , with whom he had worked in the DDP during the Weimar Republic, against the official CDU / CSU candidate Eugen Gerstenmaier , who was also too "close to the church" for many members of the government coalition , in front. Lemmer only lost in the third ballot with a difference of only 14 votes (Gerstenmaier: 204, Lemmer: 190, abstentions: 15). It was the only time in the history of the Bundestag that two parliamentary group colleagues competed against each other for the office of Bundestag President.

Honors

On October 20, 1971, Reif was given honorary citizenship of Berlin.

Fonts

• The individualistic economy as a trailblazer for national, social and cultural advancement. Hannewahr, Berlin 1931.
• Gerhard Leibholz, Hans Reif: Constitutional position and internal order of the parties. Mohr, Tübingen 1951.
• Politics and morals. Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1957.
• The parliament in the democratic state. In: Journal of Politics. 1959, No. 3, pp. 205-217.
• Europe without dogma. The Free Word, Bonn 1962.
• European Integration. West German publishing house, Cologne 1962.
• The spiritual foundations. and renaissance of liberalism. In: Wolfram Dorn (Hrsg.): History of German Liberalism. West German Publishing House, 1966.
• Liberalism. In: Ernst Fraenkel, Karl-Dietrich Bracher: Fischer Lexicon State and Politics. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-40002-3 .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 216 (331 pages).
• Erhard HM Lange:  Reif, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 326 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hans Reif: Memories and testimonials on his 80th birthday on January 19, 1979. Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bonn 1979.
• Ella Barowsky (ed.): Hans Reif: Liberalism from critical reason. Legacy of a free democrat and European. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 3-7890-1298-X .
• Arthur Schlegelmilch: Hans Reif and the Berlin Liberals 1945–1958. In: Yearbook on Liberalism Research. Volume 9, 1997, pp. 123-147.
• Anne Günther / Katharina Jochim: The office of Federal President and the question of the supreme command from the perspective of a long-time friend - Theodor Heuss to Hans Reif on March 16, 1954. In: Ines Soldwisch / Jürgen Frölich (eds.): Theodor Heuss in the original - selected documents in the analysis. Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8300-7023-8 , pp. 113-134.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reif, Hans, Prof. Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Quack to Rzeznik] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 987 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 328 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Hans Reif  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Reif in the catalog of the German National Library