Hubert Ney

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Hubert Ney
Hubert Ney's grave in Saarlouis

Hubert Ney (born October 12, 1892 in Saarlouis ; † February 3, 1984 ibid) was a German politician ( Zentrum , CVP , CDU , CNG).

Life

Hubert Ney studied law in Freiburg , Munich and Bonn . The study was interrupted by his use in the First World War. During his service in the German Expeditionary Corps in 1918 he lost his right arm. After the war he resumed his studies in Heidelberg and became active in KV at K.St.V Palatia Heidelberg . He received his doctorate and established himself as a lawyer in his hometown Saarlouis. In 1920 he joined the Center Party. In the referendum on January 13, 1935, he campaigned for the Saar area to be reintegrated into the German Empire .

In 1946 he founded the Christian People's Party of the Saarland (CVP) together with Johannes Hoffmann and others. In contrast to Hoffmann, however, Ney again campaigned for a connection between the Saarland and Germany. In 1952 he became chairman of the CDU Saar , which was banned at that time. In the referendum on October 23, 1955, like the other pro-German politicians, he campaigned for the European Saar Statute to be rejected .

After the Saar Statute had been rejected by a large majority (67.7%), Johannes Hoffmann resigned as Prime Minister on the night of the voting day and Heinrich Welsch became Interim President. On December 18, 1955, state elections took place, from which the CDU emerged as the strongest party. As a result, Hubert Ney was elected Prime Minister of Saarland on January 10, 1956 by the Saarland State Parliament. He led a Heimatbund government consisting of CDU, SPD and DPS .

On January 1, 1957, Saarland became a federal state of the Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with Article 23 of the Basic Law . Ney was successively both Prime Minister of the autonomous Saarland and the new federal state. He resigned on June 4, 1957 after disputes within the coalition and with the federal party of the CDU, his successor was Egon Reinert . In 1959, Ney left the CDU and founded the Christian National Community , which, however, failed in the 1960 state elections .

1964 tried Hermann Schwann vain to him for the national-neutralist action Commonwealth of Independent German of August Haußleiter win. In 1969 Ney called for the election of the NPD .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Hubert Ney  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger, National Democratic Party of Germany , in: Richard Stöss , Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany , Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, p. 1944.