Hugo Fink

Hugo Fink (born August 30, 1910 in Karlsruhe , † June 5, 1986 in Augsburg ) was a German economist and politician of the CSU .

Life

After attending a humanistic grammar school, he studied philosophy, political science and economics at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg. He then worked in the private sector and in public administration. From 1945 he was in the service of the Bavarian economic administration and was appointed to the Upper Government in 1949 . In 1952 he was elected a professional city councilor by the Augsburg city council and was head of the city's cultural and economic department for over 14 years. In the state elections in November 1954, he entered the Bavarian state parliament as a member. There he was chairman of the budget committee from November 1961 to 1966. After the state elections in 1966 , Prime Minister Alfons Goppel brought him to the Ministry of the Interior, headed by Bruno Merk , as State Secretary . As the chairman of the Prime Minister's advisory group, he made significant preparatory work for the comprehensive administrative reforms in Bavaria in the 1960s and 1970s. In the course of the reshuffle after the state election in 1970 , he left the cabinet, and for the state election in 1974 also from parliament.

Fink had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Arminia Heidelberg since 1929 . In 1959 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1959 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

Honors

• 1963: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1967: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1974: Honorary Senator of the University of Augsburg

  "In recognition of his services to the establishment of the university of which he was a member of the board of trustees"

Web links

• Hugo Fink in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History