Hermann Föge

Grave of Hermann Johannes Föge in the city cemetery of Göttingen.

Hermann Johannes Föge (born February 25, 1878 in Schleswig ; † October 21, 1963 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DDP , DStP, later FDP ).

Life and work

Föge was born the son of a lawyer. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities in Breslau and Berlin . He worked as a trainee lawyer in Goslar, Berlin, Aurich and Celle. He was also a lawyer’s representative in Aurich and Graudenz before he became a syndic in industry and later moved to the Gieboldehausen judge’s office . He had been working as a lawyer in Göttingen since 1909 and was also admitted as a notary in 1919. He died on October 21, 1963 as a result of a traffic accident.

Föge was a member of the Gottingo-Normannia gymnastics club in Göttingen.

politics

Föge joined the DDP during the Weimar Republic , from which the DStP emerged in 1930. Before 1933 he was a councilor of the city of Göttingen and from 1919 to 1933 mayor. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament and chairman of the DStP parliamentary group.

In 1945, Föge was one of the founders of the Göttingen FDP. At the end of the 1940s he was a member of the state executive committee of the FDP in Lower Saxony. There he was one of the moderate members who took a stand against the dominant right wing around Artur Stegner . He was again a council member in Göttingen from 1945 to 1963 and served as Lord Mayor of the city from January to November 1946 and from December 1948 to November 1956 . In 1946 he was a member of the Appointed Hanover State Parliament and in 1946/47 he was a member of the Appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament . He was then elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until 1955. Here he was from 1947 to 1955 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

Honors

• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1957: Honorary citizenship of the city of Göttingen
• 1963: Lower Saxony Order of Merit
• Hermann-Föge-Weg in Göttingen

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 102.
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 110–111.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Föge in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Boldt: History of the gymnastics club Gottingo-Normannia zu Göttingen 1875-1975. Göttingen 1975, p. 262.
2. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, page 318.