Johann Jacob Kindt-Kiefer
Johann Jacob Kindt-Kiefer (born August 20, 1905 in Dillingen / Saar , † 1978 ) was a German politician , publicist and entrepreneur.
Life
Kindt-Kiefer was born in 1905 as the son of a Protestant working-class family in Saarland. He studied in Berlin and Paris and received his doctorate in humanities in 1936 and also in law three years later . The friendship with the future French Prime Minister Georges Bidault stems from the time of his studies at the Sorbonne . During his exile in Switzerland, he met the daughter of the Swiss manufacturer Hans Kiefer and married her. Since then he has had the double name Kindt-Kiefer. After the end of the war he became a pumice stone manufacturer in Andernach .
Kindt-Kiefer belonged to Wilhelm Hoegner (later Bavarian Prime Minister ), Joseph Wirth (former Reich Chancellor of the Center Party ) and the former Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun ( SPD ) in the working group "Democratic Germany", which in 1943 drafted a memorandum on the future development of Germany after the war.
Konrad Adenauer used Kindt-Kiefer's contacts to France to discuss political decisions with the French on the Berlin question and the Saar Statute .
Publications (selection)
- The dispute over the building craftsman Jesus as the spiritual basis of our coexistence , Haupt (1957)
- Catholic and Protestant founding of the state , Bern (1940)
- On the binding of law to conscience: Justice and Freedom , Haupt (1941)
- The German chaos. A European Question , Haupt (1946)
- About the fundamental structure of the state. Social Wholeness Theory , Haupt (1940)
- Federal structure in community, economy and state. 1. "Confederation" in the new Europe , German Publishing House (1949)
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Jacob Kindt-Kiefer in the catalog of the German National Library
- [1] Christian Democracy in Europe in the 20th Century, edited by Michael Gehler, Wolfram Kaiser, Helmut Wohnout, ISBN 978-3205993605
- KINDT-KIEFER / SAAR was reprehensible Der Spiegel issue 38/1955
- Kindt-Kiefer in the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de , 96th cabinet meeting on Wednesday, September 7, 1955
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kindt-Kiefer, Johann Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kindt, Johann Jacob (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dillingen / Saar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |